HeroesX v08 Office Hours 12 | Socrates and the Afterlife @KosmosSociety2024

Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 12 hours ago

Discussion topics include responses to the Discussion Questions for Hours 22 and 23 on Plato’s Apology and Phaedo, the death of Socrates, and his view of the afterlife.
Recorded in Fall 2017 during v8 of of the MOOC, The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours, focusing on issues relating to the Discussion Questions for Hours 22 and 23.
With Gregory Nagy, Keith Stone, and members of the HeroesX Team.
Mentioned in this video:
Plato Republic, 10.614b–10.621d “The myth of Ēr”—available on Perseus:
https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0168%3Abook%3D10%3Asection%3D614b
Aristophanes Clouds, which is also available on Perseus:
https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3atext%3a1999.01.0241

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