The Phaedo is the last of five dialogues dealing with the last days of Socrates. It depicts the last day in Socrates’ life and contains his death scene. It is a philosophically and poetically rich ...
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 Socrates ...
Text in Greek and English (19 p.) inserted in container. Performer(s): Introduction, with readings from the Apology and the Phaedo, in Greek and in English translation by Moses Hadas. Responsibility: ...
The Yale Bookends present Phaedo a playful and poignant take on the trial and death of the Greek philosopher Socrates. Based directly on Platos Phaedo and Apology, this play breathes life into these ...
I recently returned from a trip to the Ancient Agora of Athens. This was essentially the town square for much of classical antiquity, a place where Athenians would gather for business, pleasure and ...
Nothing better illustrates the radical novelty of the resurrection, and its implications for religious life, then to juxtapose a famous, sardonic quote from the dying Socrates and a seemingly ...
The dichotomy between reality and appearance, and the devaluation of appearance, is rooted in pre-Socratic philosophy. Just as Plato leant upon Heraclitus’ flux for his conception of the sensible ...
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Plato's accounts of the last days of Socrates in which he kept doing philosophy right up to the point of his execution by hemlock. Show more Melvyn Bragg and guests ...
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