Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Plato's accounts of the last days of Socrates in which he kept doing philosophy right up to the point of his execution by hemlock. Show more Melvyn Bragg and guests ...

The Crito is a short dialogue written by Plato on a conversation between Socrates and his rich Athenian friend, Crito. The events of the dialogue occur after the Apology, and Socrates is in prison ...

When Plato was an infant, bees alighted on his lips and, nestling there, set about making honey. His parents had placed him, sleeping, on the summit of a mountain while they paid tribute to the gods, ...

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