Phaedo - Plato - Books - Createspace Independent Publishing Platf - 9781545448038 - April 18, 2017
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Phaedo

Plato

Phaedo

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.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released April 18, 2017
ISBN13 9781545448038
Publishers Createspace Independent Publishing Platf
Pages 74
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 4 mm   ·   108 g
Language English  

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