Phaedo
•The death of
Socrates
•Socrates discusses the
nature of the afterlife on his last day before being
executed by drinking Hemlock poison. This dialogue is narrated by
Phaedo to Echecrates
•Dialectic with a group of
Socrates' friends, including the Thebans Cebes and Simmias, Socrates
explores various arguments for the soul's immortality in
order to show that there is an afterlife in which the soul will
dwell following death