Book · 399 BC · Nonfiction
The Last Days of Socrates (includes Apology)
Penguin Books (Penguin Random House) · 256 pages
★ 7.5 editorial score
Charged with corrupting the young and denying the gods, Socrates defends himself, refuses the escape his friends arrange, argues that the soul survives, then drinks the poison. His calm is the hard part.



