📚 Library / Plato
Phaedo
Plato · c. 380 BCE · translated by Harold North Fowler
Socrates' last day, and four arguments that the soul outlives the body. He is hours from the hemlock — and cheerful.
28,220 words · 15 pages · about 2 h 8 min of reading
Read it in the original
The Ancient Greek is aligned to this translation passage by passage (294 passages, 94% matched). Hit ⇄ Greek while reading to put them side by side — click any passage to highlight it in both.
How this work is cited
Lessons cite it by Stephanus numbers — for example 514a.
Those numbers appear in the margin as you read, so a citation and the page agree.
Contents
- 57b–61a 1,975 words
- 62b–65a 1,887 words
- 66a–69a 1,791 words
- 70a–73a 1,931 words
- 74a–77a 1,925 words
- 78a–81b 1,831 words
- 82a–85b 1,794 words
- 86a–89a 1,886 words
- 90a–93a 1,823 words
- 94a–97a 1,917 words
- 98b–101a 1,951 words
- 102b–105a 1,905 words
- 106a–109a 1,806 words
- 110b–113a 1,718 words
- 114a–118a 2,080 words