Plato's dialogue narrating Socrates's final hours in prison — the conversation about the immortality of the soul on the day of his execution — presenting four arguments for the soul's immortality (cyclical argument, recollection, affinity, final cause) and ending with Socrates calmly drinking the hemlock.
Creates the defining image of philosophical death — Socrates's serenity in the face of execution, his arguments for the soul's immortality, and his final injunction to Crito ('We owe a cock to Asclepius') — making philosophy not just an intellectual discipline but a preparation for dying well.
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