To the honorable Aristotle, Greetings and a fine day to you. I, Arete, write to you because your books have sparked within me a good deal of curiosity and intrigue. I find that, out of all your writings, your Nicomachean Ethics intrigues me more than all others. I do not know how to explain…
The Faith of Socrates in The Phaedo

The Phaedo holds within its pages the account of the death of Socrates as told by a Pythagorean, which is then further retold by the greatest student and admirer of Socrates, Plato. Thus, since this account has gone through the hands of so many men, there is a degree of doubt as to the authenticity…