Description
Book SynopsisThe
Apology is a masterpiece of rhetoric, illustrating Plato’s version of Socrates’ dialectical method. This edition brings together valuable research and develops it further, questioning the historical accuracy of Plato’s version of Socrates’ defence, and presenting the Apology as a work of art. Greek text with translation and commentary.
Table of ContentsPreface
Acknowledgment
INTRODUCTION
I. Bibliographical outlines
II. Relative dating of early treatments of Socrates’ trial
III. Sources for Socrates in general
IV. Socrates’
daimonion or ‘divine sign’
V. The trial of Socrates
(A) The charge (B) The prosecutors (C) The procedures
VI. Some issues in Socratic philosophy
(A) General (B) Wisdom, Knowledge and Ignorance (C) Good and Bad (D) Death (E) A discrepancy with the
Crito?
VII. The text of this edition
ABBREVIATIONS
REFERENCES TO PLATO
BIBLIOGRAPHY
GREEK TEXT AND TRANSLATION
COMMENTARY
INDEX
