In Our Time: Socrates in PrisonSeries 1, episode 2Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Plato's Crito and Phaedo, his accounts of the last days of Socrates in prison in 399 BC as he waited to be executed by drinking hemlock. Both works show Socrates preparing to die in the way he had lived - arguing that he is duty bound not to escape from prison and pondering the immortality of the soul Click to see when In Our Time, Socrates in Prison is coming up on UK TV Cast (unconfirmed)
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