How long does it take to read Phaedo?
Phaedo by Plato takes about 3 hours 35 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Platonic dialogue
Previous: Apology Next: Parmenides
About 3 hours 35 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1713. 195 pages, about 53,625 words.
8 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 5 hours 58 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 35 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 14 minutes |
The page count is the median across 291 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
After an interval of some months or years, and at Phlius, a town of Peloponnesus, the tale of the last hours of Socrates is narrated to Echecrates and other Phliasians by Phaedo the 'beloved disciple.' The Dialogue necessarily takes the form of a narrative, because Socrates has to be described acting as well as speaking. The minutest particulars of the event are interesting to distant friends, and the narrator has an equal interest in them.
Subjects: Immortality, Immortality (Philosophy), Biblioteca Nacional (Spain), Immortalité (Philosophie), Phaedo (Plato), Fiction
