| Phaedo Contributor(s): Jowett, Benjamin (Translator), Sir Angels (Editor), Plato (Author) |
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ISBN: 1545448035 ISBN-13: 9781545448038 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $6.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Ancient, Classical & Medieval - Philosophy | History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical - Philosophy | Political |
| Physical Information: 0.15" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.24 lbs) 74 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The scene is set in Phlius where Echecrates who, meeting Phaedo, asks for news about the last days of Socrates. Phaedo explains why a delay occurred between his trial and his death, and describes the scene in a prison at Athens on the final day, naming those present. He tells how he had visited Socrates early in the morning with the others. Socrates' wife Xanthippe was there, but was very distressed and Socrates asked that she be taken away. Socrates' relates how, bidden by a recurring dream to "make and cultivate music", he wrote a hymn and then began writing poetry based on Aesop's Fables. |