The Prison of Socrates
For some years Eugene Vanderpool, retired Professor of Archaeology and, for over forty years, connected with the Agora Excavations, has been in the habit of reading Plato everyday to keep up his ancient Greek. It was while rereading the Crito and the Phaedo, which describe with some specific detail Socrates’s last days in prison, that Professor Vanderpool was reminded of the mysterious Poros Building partially excavated in the forties near the Agora.
