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Socrates Against Athens
Language: en
Pages: 282
Authors: James A. Colaiaco
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-04-15 - Publisher: Routledge

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As an essential companion to Plato's Apology and Crito, Socrates Against Athens provides valuable historical and cultural context to our understanding of the tr
Socrates on Trial
Language: en
Pages: 145
Authors: A. D. Irvine
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-01-01 - Publisher: University of Toronto Press

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More than 2,400 years after his death, Socrates remains an iconic but controversial figure. To his followers, he personified progressive Greek ideals of justice
The Sacrifice of Socrates
Language: en
Pages: 322
Authors: Wm. Blake Tyrrell
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-10-01 - Publisher: MSU Press

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When Athenians suffered the shame of having lost a war from their own greed and foolishness, around 404 BCE the public’s blame was directed at Socrates, a man
The Trial of Socrates
Language: en
Pages: 306
Authors: I. F. Stone
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 1989-02-01 - Publisher: Anchor

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In unraveling the long-hidden issues of the most famous free speech case of all time, noted author I.F. Stone ranges far and wide over Roman as well as Greek hi
Socrates on Trial
Language: en
Pages: 354
Authors: Thomas C. Brickhouse
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 1990 - Publisher: OUP Oxford

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This interpretation of Plato's Apology of Socrates argues that Plato's Socrates offers a sincere defence against the charges he faces. In doing so the book offe