Socrates in Prison

In Our Time: Philosophy by BBC

Feb 20, 202550:50Society & Culture

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 preparing to die in the wa...

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