The Crito is one of Plato’s best-known dialogues. This work is set just before Socrates’ infamous execution. The discussion it contains is, at certain points, personal; and yet is thoroughly ...
Show more Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Plato's Crito and Phaedo, his accounts of the last days of Socrates in prison in 399 BC as he waited to be executed by drinking hemlock. Both works show ...
Led away to the city's prison house, his trial and last days became the subject of Plato's 'Crito & Phaedo'. Visited by many people, he faced the prospect of death with characteristic unconcern ...
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