Phaedo

Narrated by Phaedo to a friend who could not be present, this is Plato's longest sustained treatment of the soul. Awaiting the executioner, Socrates argues that the philosopher, who has spent a lifetime practising death — separating mind from body — should welcome it. The dialogue weaves four proofs of the soul's immortality, a myth of judgement and the afterlife, and one of the most famous death scenes in literature. The closing panel of the Apology–Crito–Phaedo sequence.