Echecrates

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Echecrates is a Pythagorean philosopher who appears in Plato’s dialogue "Phaedo" as the interlocutor to whom Phaedo recounts the final conversation and death of Socrates.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Ancient Greek philosopher
Literary character
Platonic dialogue character
Pythagorean philosopher
appearsInGenre Socratic dialogue
asksAbout arguments for the immortality of the soul
circumstances of Socrates’ execution
associatedWith Phaedo of Elis
Socrates
createdBy Plato
dialogueRoleType questioner
dialogueWith Phaedo
fictionalStatus possibly historical, known primarily from Plato’s dialogue
genreContext ancient Greek philosophical literature
language Ancient Greek
mentionedIn Phaedo
narrativeFunction frame narrator’s interlocutor in Phaedo
philosophicalInterest Socratic teaching
soul and afterlife
philosophicalTradition Pythagoreanism
receivesAccountOf death of Socrates
final conversation of Socrates
receivesNarrationFrom Phaedo
religiousPhilosophicalOrientation Pythagorean
roleInWork interlocutor
settingOfAppearance Phlius
sourceFor indirect report of Socrates’ last hours
timePeriod Classical Greece
workAttributedContext Platonic corpus

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Phaedo featuresCharacter Echecrates
Phaedo narratedTo Echecrates