Crito

Set in Socrates' cell on the eve of his execution, the Crito is a tight, intimate dialogue about justice and political obligation. Crito has bribed the guards and begs Socrates to flee. Socrates refuses, and personifies the Laws of Athens to make his case: a citizen who has accepted the protection and education of his state for seventy years cannot, when sentenced, walk away. The second panel of the trial-and-death sequence, after the Apology and before the Phaedo.