On his last day, Socrates argues for the immortality of the soul, then calmly drinks the hemlock.
Books that mention Phaedo (4)
The Just City by Jo Walton: “It’s what Plato wrote in the Phaedo, isn’t it?”
Lent by Jo Walton: “he dies with his hands folded over the stone on his breast, with Pico reading to him from Plato's Phaedo”
Necessity by Jo Walton: “Phaedo of Elis, the friend of Sokrates for whom Plato named his most beautiful dialogue, on the immortality of the soul, was a slave.”
The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton: “and Socrates himself defends it, in Plato's Phaedon, "if any man labour of an incurable disease, he may despatch himself, if it be to his good."”