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Title: Phaedo
Author: Plato
Translator: Benjamin Jowett
Release date: March 1, 1999 [eBook #1658]
Most recently updated: October 29, 2008
Language: English
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PHAEDO
By Plato
Translated by Benjamin Jowett
INTRODUCTION.
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.
During the voyage of the sacred ship to and from Delos, which has occupied thirty days, the execution of So…