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What is Plato's Phaedo about?
After an interval of some months or years, and at Phlius, a town of Peloponnesus, the tale of the last hours of Socrates is narrated to Echecrates and other Phliasians by Phaedo the 'beloved disciple.' The Dialogue necessarily takes the form of a narrative, because Socrates has to be described acting as well as speaking. The minutest particulars of the event are interesting to distant friends, and the narrator has an equal interest in them.
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- Author
- Plato (author);Hackforth, R. (editor)
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
- Published
- 1972
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780521084581
- Category
- reference
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Linguistics, Humanities
- Rating
- 4.4 / 5 (222 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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