Earlier, this text argues that the world consists of 12 earths.
At one point, the title character is asked to call on his interlocutor in the same way that Heracles called on Iolaus. Its last pages contain an account of four rivers - including the River Oceanus and the Acheron, the latter of which empties into a lake of boiling mud and water. Earlier, this text argues that the world consists of 12 earths. As it opens, (*) Echecrates asks the title figure about a series of events which cause Xantippe to cry sorrowfully. Its title figure is told an argument involving "opposites" to show that a certain entity is deathless. Much of this dialogue, like the Meno, presents arguments about how learning is merely recollection of forgotten knowledge and that the soul is truly immortal. For 10 points, name this Platonic dialogue which ends with Socrates's consumption of hemlock.
At one point, the title character is asked to call on his interlocutor in the same way that Heracles called on Iolaus.
Phaedo