Download or read book Phaedo written by Plato and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-16 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.