Phaedon, Or a Dialogue on the Immortality of the Soul (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Phædon, or a Dialogue on the Immortality of the Soul Plato, the sublimity of whose doctrine has procured him the appellation of the Divine, was born in the eighty-eighth Olympiad. He was descended from one of the most illustrious fami lies ih Athens; by his father, whose name was Aristo, he was descended of Codrus; and by his mother, Perictione of Solon. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.