"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. © AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine Phaedo presented here are taken from Hackett Publishing Companys epoch- making. Everything is done, in short, to take Socrates from that dry 101 text to our own neighborhood. The translations of Platos Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, and the final scene of. Naxos even provides an original soundtrack, haunting and meditative, to bridge the awkward transitions in the action. They give us the feel of what it must have been like in the jail that strange day 2,500 years ago when Athens put their most thoughtful citizen to death because he troubled their sleep. The performance of Bruce Alexander, Jamie Glover, and company brings all the graceful resignation and patient humor of the 72-year-old man to new life, as only seasoned actors can. Socrates's defense of his life and, ironically, of his death, possesses a stunning immediacy: It is colloquial yet faithful, contemporary yet ancient, poignant yet timeless. Most of us remember THE APOLOGY as one of those dry Philosophy 101 texts we struggled to finish, but Tom Griffith's new translation in this Naxos production is far from dry.
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