Research Catalog

Title

The last days of Socrates : Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo / Plato ; translated with introductions and notes by Christopher Rowe.

Author

Plato

Publication

London ; New York : Penguin Books, 2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

Rowe, C. J.

Description

xxxiv, 211 p.; 20 cm.

Summary

Plato's account of Socrates' trial and death (399 BCE) is one of the most significant moments in western literature and philosophy. In these four works Plato illustrates Socrates' fundamental belief in the necessity for us to èxamine ourselves and others', portraying the man himself living and dying by his philosophy. In Euthyphro, Socrates debates the nature of pìety'; in Apology, he defends himself in court against the charge of impiety; in Crito, now in prison and awaiting execution, he considers whether escape can be justified; finally, in Phaedo, he reflects on the ethics of suicide, describes his intellectual history, and mounts a series of arguments for supposing that we continue to exist as intelligent beings after death. Then, after a magnificent description of the earth and its regions, he drinks the hemlock and dies.

Series Statement

Penguin classics

Uniform Title

• Dialogues. Selections. English
• Penguin classics.

Alternative Title

Dialogues.

Subject

• Socrates
• Socrates > Trials, litigation, etc
• Socrates > Death and burial
• Philosophy, Ancient

Genre/Form

• Trial and arbitral proceedings
• Trials, litigation, etc.
• Comptes rendus de procès et d'arbitrage.

Note

• Translated from the Ancient Greek.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxviii]-xxxii).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Euthyphro -- Apology -- Crito -- Phaedo.

ISBN

• 9780140455496 (pbk.)
• 0140455493 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 645672598
• SCSB-10937068

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library