…famous lecture Phaedon. After having drunk the poison, he took leave of his friends and in the end he said, O Creton, we owe Asclepius a cockerel. Give it to him and don't forget. Creton answered, It will be done. See if you want to say anything more.…

…But he did not answer. He stayed for a while, then wrapped himself up and died. In Greece, the cockerel was an animal of Asclepius, together with the snake and the dog. It was therefore the custom that if somebody was healed by the god from an illness,…

…the dog. It was therefore the custom that if somebody was healed by the god from an illness, he sacrificed the cockerel to Asclepius. Thus Socrates conveyed to his friends that for him, in a way, life was itself an illness, and death was its cure, his…