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Plato and the Apology

Plato and the Apology

Marsico, Claudia

Paperback

PhilosophyAncient Greece

ISBN10: 9873729208
ISBN13: 9789873729201
Publisher: Notios
Published: Jun 26 2026
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.28 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

In 399 BCE an Athenian jury sentenced Socrates to death. The speech he gave in his defense, as Plato preserved it, became one of the founding texts of Western philosophy and one of its most contested.

Plato and the Apology guides the reader through that text and the trial behind it. Claudia Marsico, a leading scholar of Socratic philosophy, places Plato's account beside the rival versions of antiquity. Xenophon composed a competing defense. The sophist Polycrates, in a pamphlet now lost, turned the charge toward Socrates' political responsibility and his closeness to the city's worst men. Other Socratics claimed the master for themselves. The result is a portrait of a trial shot through with politics from the start.

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