Dialogues of Socrates’ Dog

Scott Stavrou
Aug 27, 2017 · 6 min read

Socrates and his Method with his Dog

Socrates, first posing the question “Who’s a good boy?”

I was laying outside in the shade of an amphora and awaiting for the wisest man in Athens to come home. Objectively, it had been a very long day (this was before we knew that time was relative). I was a bit tired due to having spent large portions of the afternoon dealing with the cat, who was a Cynic, which as you can imagine is very exhausting. I tried to be Stoic about it.

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Scott Stavrou

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Author of Losing Venice, a novel (May, 2018) | American living in Europe | PEN Hemingway Award | Writer, Teacher | http://bit.ly/LosingVenice

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