The Death Of Socrates
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✎ Suggest a correctionDramatizes Plato's 'CRITO' and 'PHAEDON' in a modern setting. Shows Socrates in his death cell, condemned by the Athenian tribunal, discussing with his friends the immortality of the soul. Underlines the fact that political persecution has persisted for 2,500 years, and that today suppression of individual thought is still relentlessly pursued.
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