The Trial and Death of Socrates

Name: The Trial and Death of Socrates
Brand: Naxos
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Author: Plato
ISBN: 9789629547424

Author: Plato

Narrator: Bruce Alexander, and cast

Unabridged: 4 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Naxos

Published: 10/01/2001

Categories: Nonfiction, Philosophy

Synopsis

The Trial and Death of Socrates remains a powerful document, partly because it was a true – perhaps in certain parts verbatim – account of the end of one of the greatest figures in history. In Apology Socrates defends himself before the Athenian court against charges of corrupting youth. Phaedo is the account, by a young man, of the actual last words and moments of Socrates. These are presented with scene-setting introductions to the historical situation. They are performed, unabridged, by a cast led by Bruce Alexander as Socrates, following his successful reading of The Republic for Naxos AudioBooks.

About Plato

Plato (427-347 B.C.) was a classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, writer, and student of Socrates. Most of his works, which form some of the core foundations of Western philosophy, are written in the form of dialogues, in which Socrates often figures prominently. His best-known writings include the Republic, the Apology, the Symposium, Crito, and Statesman. Plato's work addresses such diverse themes as the nature of love, human knowledge and understanding, and the ideal form of government.

Reviews

Goodreads review by David on June 12, 2012

When he was tried, convicted and ordered to death in 399 B.C.E., Socrates was already seventy years old: he had lived through the imperialistic spread of Athenian democracy and culture under Pericles, twenty-five years of first cold and then heated war with Sparta, the defeat of Athens in 404 B.C.E.......more

Goodreads review by Shivam on August 04, 2018

Somebody should tell Jon Snow to read this book. Poor guy, Ygritte wouldn't stop giving him hell. "You know nothing, Jon Snow" says she, all the time. If only Jon would read Socrates, he would have the greatest of retorts, the greatest of Socrates' teachings as his come back. "The only true wisdom is......more

Goodreads review by Linda on May 30, 2021

I do not know, men of Athens, how my accusers affected you; as for me, I was almost carried away in spite of myself, so persuasively did they speak. And yet, hardly anything of what they said is true. Socrates It's strange to reread a text that I first read when I was young, idealistic, optimistic, an......more

Goodreads review by Ahmed on March 07, 2014

( Plato's dialogues ) بادئ ذى بدء .. الكتاب من النوع الذى يتركك فى حاله يرثى لها بعد فروغك منه , فقد فقدت صديقا حميما. المحاورات : 1- Euthyphro .. أوطيفرون 2- الدفاع 3- crito .. أقريطون 4- Phaedo .. فيدون أحبهم إلى قلبى .. الدفاع وأقريطون , محاورة فيدون هى الأطول . تتبع المحاوره الأخيره نظام مختلف عن ال......more

Goodreads review by J on July 19, 2014

I wish I had read these 4 dialogues before they made us work through The Republic back in school. Plato can seem so distant and archiac so much of the time, but here there is an actual sense of human urgency: Socrates is about to die. A lot of times the dialogues feel completely neutered from any re......more