Phaidon or O Iliggos – Nicosia International Festival 2026
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Nicosia Municipal Theatre, Cyprus
Wednesday 23 September & Thursday 24 September 2026 | 19:00
Exoteriki Plateia Dimotikou Theatrou Lefkosias
One of the leading literary figures of the twentieth century visits Plato's Phaedo to narrate the fall from innocence to knowledge.
Before becoming a student of Socrates, Phaedo of Elis was the most beautiful body, the most precious slave, a man who knew love as ecstasy and as destruction. As a youth he was captured by the Spartans and sold as a slave, forced into prostitution, before being freed with ransom collected at the urging of Socrates. The