'Judicious, accessible, comprehensive, and richly informative, David Ebrey's new study of the Phaedo will be welcomed by students and scholars alike.' David Sedley, University of Cambridge
1. The Characters; 2. The Phaedo as an Alternative to Tragedy and Socrates as a Poet: 57a–61c; 3. Defense of the Desire to be Dead: 61c–69e; 4. Cebes' Challenge and the Cyclical Argument: 69e–72d; 5. The Recollecting Argument: 72e–77d; 6. The Kinship Argument: 77d–80d; 7. The Return to the Defense: 80d–84b; 8. Misology and the Soul as a Harmonia: 84c–86e, 88c–95a; 9. Socrates' Autobiography: 95e–102a; 10. Cebes' Objection and the Final Argument: 86e–88b, 102b–107b; 11. The Cosmos and the Afterlife: 107c–115a; 12. The Death Scene: 115a–118a.