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The Trial and Death of Socrates escape rooms
4 self-checking escape rooms on The Trial and Death of Socrates by Plato, one for each section. Every answer comes from the text, so each room checks reading as well as recall, and they work with any edition. For grades 9–12, classical homeschoolers and literature classes.
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The Trial and Death of Socrates · EuthyphroThe Question of PietyFree taster
The Trial and Death of Socrates · ApologyThe Gadfly's DefenceFree taster
The Trial and Death of Socrates · CritoThe Prison at DawnFree taster
The Trial and Death of Socrates · PhaedoThe Last DayFree tasterRoom by room
- Euthyphro: The Question of Piety. The charge Meletus has brought, Euthyphro's case against his father, his attempts to say what piety is, and the arguments that will not stand still.
- Apology: The Gadfly's Defence. The old slanders and the new charges, the oracle and Socrates' search for a wiser man, his questioning of Meletus, the verdict, the penalty he proposes and his last words to the jury.
- Crito: The Prison at Dawn. Crito's early visit and his news, Socrates' dream, Crito's reasons for escape, Socrates' rule that one must never do wrong, and the imagined speech of the Laws of Athens.
- Phaedo: The Last Day. Phaedo's report to Echecrates, the friends gathered in the prison, Socrates' arguments that the soul lives on, the objections of Simmias and Cebes, the story of the true earth and the death of Socrates.