Plato: Phaedo Renaissance " --Dina Temple-Raston

" --Dina Temple-Raston

In the far future

Combining the rigor of the scientific method with the poetry and lyricism of movement and somatic studies

the impact it had when it was published

Plato: Phaedo Renaissance " --Dina Temple-RastonThe Phaedo is acknowledged to be one of Plato's masterpieces, showing him both as a philosopher and as a dramatist at the height of his powers. For its moving account of the execution of Socrates, the Phaedo ranks among the supreme literary achievements of antiquity. It is also a document crucial to the understanding of many ideas deeply ingrained in western culture, and provides one of the best introductions to Plato's thought. This new edition is