The Trial and Execution of Socrates

This volume gathers three of Plato's dialogues on the last days of Socrates in Athens in 399 BC. In the Apology, Socrates answers the jury on charges of impiety and corrupting the young, describing his questioning of reputations and his daimonion. Crito visits the prison and urges escape; Socrates refuses, arguing that one must not return injustice or break the laws one has lived under. Phaedo recounts the final day: arguments for the soul's immortality, the myth of the afterlife, and the drinking of hemlock among friends. The book is a philosophical narrative of trial and death, not a later biography.

Quarter-bound in pattern printed fawn cloth with red paper covers. Cream slipcase.