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Trial and Execution of Socrates Sources and Controversies

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ISBN-10: 0195119800

ISBN-13: 9780195119800

Edition: 2002

Authors: Thomas C. Brickhouse, Nicholas D. Smith

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This is the first work to collect in one place all the ancient sources on Socrates' death as well as recent scholarly views. Outside of the Republic, the most widely read of Plato's dialogues are the three that cover the trial of Socrates: the Euthyphro, the Apology, and the Crito. This collection includes these three dialogues, the death scenes from the Phaedo, and all the other major ancient sources that shed light on Socrates' trial and execution. The editors have also included the best recent scholarship on this philosophically and historically momentous event.
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Book details

List price: $79.99
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/27/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.09" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

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Preface
Introduction
Original Sources
Aristophanes
Clouds ll. 358-407, 476-492, 627-680, 723-756, 825-830
Plato
Euthyphro (complete)
Apology of Socrates (complete)
Crito (complete)
Phaedo (death scene: 116a-118a)
Xenophon
Apology of Socrates (complete)
Memorabilia 1.1.1-1.2.39, 1.2.47-1.3.15, 4.7.1-4.8.11
Diogenes Laertius
On the Lives and Opinions of Eminent Persons in Philosophy. 2.18, 24, 29, 37-43
Minor Sources
Aeschines of Sphettus (fragment 1K from Publius Aelius Aristides)
Isocrates, Busiris 11.4-6
Aeschines (Rhetor), Oratio 1.173
Aristotle, The Art of Rhetoric 2.10.1393b4-8
Metaphysics A 1.6.987b1-4
Diodorus Siculus, Book IV, 37.7
Dio Chrysostum, 43.8-10
Maximus of Tyre, Oration 3.1-8
Libanius
Apology of Socrates 1, 13, 15-16, 22, 33, 48, 53, 59, 103-106, 110-112, 136, 142, 153-154, 168, 170, 172, 174-175
Recent Scholarship
Why Was Socrates Prosecuted?
"The Impiety of Socrates"
"The Trial of Socrates: And a Religious Crisis?"
"Does Piety Pay? Socrates on Prayer and Sacrifice"
From Plato's Socrates
Socrates and Obedience to the Law
From Socrates and the State
From Plato's Socrates
Did Plato Tell the Truth About the Death Of Socrates?
"The Death of Socrates"
"Hemlock Poisoning and the Death of Socrates: Did Plato Tell the Truth?
Works Cited