Phaedo by Plato
Published 1993 · 144 pages · 39,600 words · about 2 hours at an average pace
How hard is Phaedo to read?
Phaedo scores 14 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it relatively accessible. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
Where the story of Phaedo takes place
- Athens, 399 BCE, the main setting