Εὐθύφρων / Κρίτων / Φαίδων / Ἀπολογία Σωκράτους
1871
- philosophers
- biography
- socrates
- socrates.
- history of ideas, intellectual history
- body, mind & spirit
- mysticism
- philosophy
- religion
- history & surveys - ancient & classical
The story
Reprinted with updated Further Reading
What it’s like
Measured Victorian English moves through long, courteous exchanges of question and answer, balanced and unhurried even when the argument sharpens, so the page feels like a lamplit room where people speak slowly and listen closely. The four short dialogues are set in Athens, mostly in a plain prison cell and a crowded courthouse, and the prose conjures stone walls, cool morning light and the stillness of waiting. The mood is grave but never hopeless: a steady, reflective calm with a current of mortality running beneath, strongest in the final pages where a condemned man speaks cheerfully of death and the room falls quiet. There is no physical violence on the page. The threat of execution is described with restraint, and the closing scene is quiet and unsensational. Pacing alternates brisk back-and-forth with longer speeches, which suits slow reading on a grey morning, a long winter evening, or with a notebook open alongside. It rewards readers who want contemplative philosophy and questions about courage, conscience and the good life, in a companionable, unhurried intellectual atmosphere.
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