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Socrates in Prison

23 January 2025

Dr Fiona Leigh (UCL Philosophy) explores the history and philosophical principles within Plato’s Crito which recounts of the last days of Socrates in prison in 399 BC as he waited to be executed by drinking hemlock.

Listen: BBC Radio 4 “In Our Time” (from 8 mins 8 secs)