Ahrensdorf, Peter J., The Death of Socrates and the Life of Philosophy, New York: State University of New York, 1995.

Excerpt:

While all of Plato’s dialogues celebrate the philosophic life as a whole and the life of Socrates in particular, none does so more dramatically or more movingly than the Phaedo. There we see the philosopher face death with a nobility which all must admire (see 58e3–59a1, 116c4–8). There we see him proclaim and defend his pious belief in the immortality of the soul even as his fellow citizens are executing him for impiety.

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