Phaedo
Phaedo is 42,166 words — about 2h 49m at 250 words per minute, across 2 chapters. Measure your own speed and read it free, here.
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How it opens
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…
Details
- AuthorPlato
- SourceProject Gutenberg #1658
- Length42,166 words · 2h 49m of reading
- Chapters2
- DictionaryIncluded
- CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
- Source checked2026-08-21
Contents
2 chapters
Recovered from the original source text, so you can open the book at any of them.
- 01By Plato
- 02SCENE: The Prison of Socrates.
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