The Trials of Socrates: Six Classic Texts by C.D.C. Reeve, Xenophon, Peter Meineck, Plato, Aristophanes, James Doyle

The Trials of Socrates: Six Classic Texts

C.D.C. Reeve, Xenophon, Peter Meineck, Plato, Aristophanes, James Doyle

192 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction classics philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Lampooned in 406 B.C.E. in a blistering Aristophanic satire, Socrates was tried in 399 B.C.E. on a charge of corrupting the youth, convicted by a jury of about five hundred of his peers, and condemned to death. Glimpsed today through the extant wr...

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