A booklet, an audio reading and a glossary for Plato's Crito and Phaedo

2026-10-28T21:35:04.819351+00:00

Tonight the [Phil@Viv philosophy group](https://partiful.com/e/tAxHCATsa5ZrhWntk6is) goes back to Athens for the death of Socrates. The assigned readings are Plato's *Crito* and *Phaedo* in G. M. A. Grube's translation, shared by the host as a [PDF on Google Drive](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qIwhfi9f18ySl2cZtLfSKDGvDoMi6_vI/view). I wanted something I could hold, something I could listen to, and a list of who everyone is, so I made three things from that PDF. ## A printed booklet The source is 64 letter-size pages, each a book page sitting in a wide white margin. I printed it as a pocket booklet on precut 6.125 x 9.25 inch stock, the size of a Supreme Court brief. ![The booklet's cover: a double-rule frame with Greek-key bands, PLATO with its Greek form above, Crito and Phaedo in italic, and Socrates' last words in Greek and English](/static/plato-crito-phaedo/cover.png) The cover has a Greek-key band at the top and bottom, the two titles with their Greek names, and Socrates' last words from *Phaedo* 118a in Greek and in Grube's English: "Crito, we owe a cock to Asclepius; make this offering to him and do not forget." It is set in TeX Gyre Pagella, with the Greek in GFS Didot so the iota subscripts survive, and printed one-sided on 65 lb cover stock. For the interior, each page is cropped to its text block, with separate crop boxes for odd and even pages because the book's gutter shifts the type. The crop is then scaled to fill the trim size, about 0.65 inch at the sides and 0.8 inch at the top and bottom. The Stephanus numbers in the margin stay in, so the group's section references (59c to 69e, 72e to 84b, 89b to 91c, 96a to 102a, 107c to the end) can be found on the page. The 64 pages print duplex on 32 sheets, with the cover's blank back facing page 37, the first page of the *Crito*. Two pages, to show the result: ![Booklet page 38: the end of the editor's introduction to the Crito and the opening exchange between Socrates and Crito at 43a](/static/plato-crito-phaedo/page-38.png) ![Booklet page 100: the last page of the Phaedo, with Socrates' final words at 118a](/static/plato-crito-phaedo/page-100.png) ### The paper The paper comes from [CutCardStock](https://www.cutcardstock.com), which sells letter-size packs and will cut every sheet to a custom size for $3 a pack. I ordered these, each with Add Custom Cutting set to YES and a cut size of 6⅛ × 9¼: 1. Cover: [Cougar White Card Stock, 8.5x11, 65 lb / 176 gsm, Smooth](https://www.cutcardstock.com/products/discount-white-card-stock?variant=678403941). One pack yields 250 covers, $33.95 with cutting. 2. Interior: [Cougar White Digital Super Smooth Color Copy Paper, 8.5x11, 60 lb / 89 gsm](https://www.cutcardstock.com/products/cougar-supersmoth-white-paper?variant=687081577). One pack yields 500 sheets, $30.50 with cutting. 3. Also on the order, as a second interior paper: [Lynx Opaque Smooth Paper, 8.5x11, 60 lb / 89 gsm](https://www.cutcardstock.com/products/lynx-digital-white-paper?variant=687082581), 500 sheets, $29.75 with cutting. Pick the size option on each product page before adding it to the cart, then turn on [custom cutting](https://www.cutcardstock.com/products/custom-card-stock-and-paper-cutting). Custom-cut orders can't be returned, so check the cut size line before you pay. Both stocks run through an Epson EcoTank ET-2988 at a custom 6.125 x 9.25 inch page size, with the interior printed duplex. The booklet reproduces the whole translation, so I am not posting the print files. If you have the reading, you can make your own the same way. ## A dramatic audio reading [Listen to Crito and Phaedo on papertospeech.com](https://papertospeech.com/readings/pdf-plato-crito-and-phaedo-e4beb9c934), or [download the MP3](https://media.papertospeech.com/readings/pdf-plato-crito-and-phaedo-e4beb9c934/7a8ecc4da2731c84-pdf-plato-crito-and-phaedo-e4beb9c934.mp3). It runs 3 hours 17 minutes. Before upload I built a listening edition of the text. It drops the running heads, page numbers, margin references and footnotes, and it labels every speech with its speaker, so the dialogue reads as a conversation instead of a wall of text. Both editor's introductions are kept. All 2,456 substantial lines of the source appear in the listening text, in order, about 32,500 spoken words. ## A glossary [Download the glossary (PDF)](/static/plato-crito-phaedo/crito-phaedo-glossary.pdf). It is written for this meeting and covers the people, the places and rites, the ideas and arguments, and the closing myth, each with Stephanus references. A short guide at the top maps the group's key *Phaedo* sections to the entries that matter in each. ## Links 1. [Phil@Viv on Partiful](https://partiful.com/e/tAxHCATsa5ZrhWntk6is), the event and the reading assignment 2. [The reading as shared by the host](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qIwhfi9f18ySl2cZtLfSKDGvDoMi6_vI/view) (Google Drive) 3. [Audio reading on papertospeech.com](https://papertospeech.com/readings/pdf-plato-crito-and-phaedo-e4beb9c934) 4. [Audio reading MP3](https://media.papertospeech.com/readings/pdf-plato-crito-and-phaedo-e4beb9c934/7a8ecc4da2731c84-pdf-plato-crito-and-phaedo-e4beb9c934.mp3) 5. [Glossary PDF](/static/plato-crito-phaedo/crito-phaedo-glossary.pdf) 6. [Booklet cover](/static/plato-crito-phaedo/cover.png), [page 38](/static/plato-crito-phaedo/page-38.png) and [page 100](/static/plato-crito-phaedo/page-100.png) 7. [Cougar 65 lb cover stock](https://www.cutcardstock.com/products/discount-white-card-stock?variant=678403941), [Cougar Super Smooth 60 lb text paper](https://www.cutcardstock.com/products/cougar-supersmoth-white-paper?variant=687081577) and [Lynx Opaque 60 lb text paper](https://www.cutcardstock.com/products/lynx-digital-white-paper?variant=687082581) at CutCardStock 8. Earlier booklets: [Plato's Euthyphro and Apology](/2026/Oct/14/plato-euthyphro-apology-booklet-glossary/), [Negarestani's The Labor of the Inhuman](/2026/Oct/21/labor-of-the-inhuman-reader-glossary-readings/) and [Wolf Tivy's Don't Learn Value From Society](/2026/Oct/24/dont-learn-value-from-society-booklet/)

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A booklet for Plato's Euthyphro and Apology

2026-10-14T22:00:00+00:00

The [fourteenth Phil@Viv philosophy meeting](https://partiful.com/e/dkavXKHP5Vza4XU68Ty0), on October 14, read Plato's *Euthyphro* and *Apology* in G. M. A. Grube's translation: Socrates on the way to court, cross-examining a man who is sure he knows what piety is, and then Socrates on trial for his life. The host shared the reading as a [PDF on Google Drive](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1T0ofYG8XbkIuporQF2zLSeZB0NjzBdiM/view), 37 letter-size book pages. I turned it into a pocket booklet, the first of what became a run of these. ## The booklet It is printed on precut 6.125 x 9.25 inch stock, the size of a Supreme Court brief. The cover has a double-rule frame, Greek-key bands at the top and bottom, PLATO with ΠΛΑΤΩΝ above it, the two titles with their Greek names, and the line from *Apology* 38a in Greek and in Grube's English: "The unexamined life is not worth living for men." ![The booklet's cover: Greek-key bands, PLATO with its Greek form above, Euthyphro and Apology in italic, and the Apology 38a line in Greek and English](/static/plato-euthyphro-apology/cover.png) The interior is the host's pages, each cropped to its text block and enlarged. Left and right pages of a book sit at different offsets on the page, so odd and even pages each get their own crop box. The first print had margins of about a third of an inch. I widened them by a quarter inch for the reprints, to 0.65 inch at the sides and 0.75 inch at the top and bottom, which leaves room to write. The Stephanus numbers in the margin stay in, so "38a" can be found on the page. ![Booklet page 3: the opening exchange between Socrates and Euthyphro, with Stephanus margin letters](/static/plato-euthyphro-apology/page-3.png) ![Booklet page 33: Socrates proposing his penalty in the Apology, including "the unexamined life is not worth living for men" at 38a](/static/plato-euthyphro-apology/page-33.png) The booklet reproduces the whole translation, so I am not posting the print files. ## A glossary [Download the glossary (PDF)](/static/plato-euthyphro-apology/euthyphro-apology-glossary.pdf). It is written for the booklet and covers the people, the places and institutions of an Athenian trial, the gods and myths Euthyphro cites, and the ideas and arguments, each with Stephanus references. A short guide at the top maps the main movements of each dialogue to the entries that matter there. ## Paper and printing The cover went one-sided on an Epson EcoTank ET-2988 on [Cougar White Card Stock, 65 lb / 176 gsm, Smooth](https://www.cutcardstock.com/products/discount-white-card-stock?variant=678403941), and the interior duplex on 60 lb text paper, such as [Cougar White Digital Super Smooth, 60 lb / 89 gsm](https://www.cutcardstock.com/products/cougar-supersmoth-white-paper?variant=687081577), both from CutCardStock with [custom cutting](https://www.cutcardstock.com/products/custom-card-stock-and-paper-cutting) to 6⅛ × 9¼. The cover's blank back faces page 1, so the booklet opens straight onto the *Euthyphro*. ## Links 1. [Phil@Viv 14 on Partiful](https://partiful.com/e/dkavXKHP5Vza4XU68Ty0), the event and the reading assignment 2. [The reading as shared by the host](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1T0ofYG8XbkIuporQF2zLSeZB0NjzBdiM/view) (Google Drive) 3. [Glossary PDF](/static/plato-euthyphro-apology/euthyphro-apology-glossary.pdf) 4. [Booklet cover](/static/plato-euthyphro-apology/cover.png), [page 3](/static/plato-euthyphro-apology/page-3.png) and [page 33](/static/plato-euthyphro-apology/page-33.png) 5. [Cougar 65 lb cover stock](https://www.cutcardstock.com/products/discount-white-card-stock?variant=678403941) and [Cougar Super Smooth 60 lb text paper](https://www.cutcardstock.com/products/cougar-supersmoth-white-paper?variant=687081577) at CutCardStock 6. [The sequel: Plato's Crito and Phaedo](/2026/Oct/28/plato-crito-phaedo-booklet-reading-glossary/)

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A booklet, an audio reading and a glossary for Plato's Crito and Phaedo

A booklet for Plato's Euthyphro and Apology