Platonic dialogue that is set in the last hours of Socrates' life

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Death and immortality in late Neoplatonism : studies on the ancient commentaries on Plato's Phaedo / by Sebastian Ramon Philipp Gertz.

The death of Socrates and the life of philosophy : an interpretation of Plato's Phaedo / Peter J. Ahrensdorf.

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Phaedo

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Death and immortality in late Neoplatonism : studies on the ancient commentaries on Plato's Phaedo / by Sebastian Ramon Philipp Gertz.

The death of Socrates and the life of philosophy : an interpretation of Plato's Phaedo / Peter J. Ahrensdorf.