Last Days of Socrates: Literary Power of Plato’s Dialogues

Embark on a journey through Plato’s profound final dialogues — Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo — chronicling Socrates’ trial, imprisonment, and death in a democratic Athens at a time of crisis and transition. Witness a city in turbulence, Socrates’s fearless questioning of dogma and authority, his unyielding moral integrity, and the Phaedo’s soaring speculations on the soul’s immortality. Explore the power of a mode of writing that is at once literary and philosophical, a vision that confronts injustice, mortality, and truth in one of Western thought’s most moving portraits of the impact of one challenging individual.