Today's installment concludes The Last Days of Socrates,our selection from Phaedo by Plato published in his middle/transitional period. For works

"We will endeavor then so to do," he said; "but how shall we bury you?"Continuing The Last Days of Socrates,our selection from Phaedo by Plato

"These things being thus constituted, when the dead arrive at the place to which their demon leads them severally, first of all they are

“This earth and the whole region here are decayed and corroded, as things in the sea by the saltness.”Continuing The Last Days of Socrates,our

"Does not, then," he continued, "the whole employment of such a man appear to you to be, not about the body, but to separate himself from it as much

"You speak justly," said Socrates, "for I think you mean that I ought to make my defense to this charge, as if I were in a court of

"Why, then, Socrates, do they say that it is not allowable to kill one's self?”Continuing The Last Days of Socrates,our selection from Phaedo by