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PHAEDO , See also:

Greek philosopher, founder of the Elian school, was a native of See also:Elis, See also:born in the last years of the 5th See also:century B.C. In the See also:war of 401—400 between See also:Sparta and Elis he was taken prisoner and became a slave in See also:Athens, where his beauty brought him notoriety. He became a See also:pupil of See also:Socrates, who conceived a warm See also:affection for him. It appears that he was intimate with See also:Cebes and See also:Plato, and he gave his name to one of Plato's dialogues. See also:Athenaeus relates, however, that he resolutely declined responsibility for any of the views with which Plato credits him, and that the relations between him and Plato were the See also:reverse of friendly. See also:Aeschines also wrote a See also:dialogue called Phaedo. Shortly after the See also:death of Socrates Phaedo returned to Elis, where his disciples included Anchipylus, See also:Moschus and Pleistanus, who succeeded him. Subsequently See also:Menedemus and See also:Asclepiades transferred the school to See also:Eretria, where it was known as the Eretrian school and is frequently identified (e.g. by See also:Cicero) with the Megarians. The doctrines of Phaedo are not known, nor is it possible to infer them from the Platonic dialogue. His writings, none of which are preserved, were in the See also:form of dialogues. As to their authenticity nothing is known, in spite of an See also:attempt at selection by See also:Panaetius (Diog. Laert. ii.

64), who maintains that the Zopyrus and the See also:

Simon are genuine. See also:Seneca has preserved one of his dicta (Epist. 94. 41), namely that one method of acquiring virtue is to frequent the society of See also:good men. See Wilamowitz, See also:Hermes, xiv. 189 seq.

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