Apologizing for Socrates places some of the Platonic and Xenophontic writings in the context of contemporary controversies over Socrates, providing a perspective in which many of the philosophic and literary features of the text can be explained. In...
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Apologizing for Socrates places some of the Platonic and Xenophontic writings in the context of contemporary controversies over Socrates, providing a perspective in which many of the philosophic and literary features of the text can be explained. In addition, it sheds light on the apologetic techniques used by Plato and Xenophon Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; Acknowledgments; Chapter One:Plato and Xenophon on Socrates' Behavior in Court (Be Apologies); Chapter Two:Building a Community under Fire (Crito); Chapter Three: Disgracing Meletus (Euthyphro); Chapter Four: Xenophon's Socratic Seductions (Memorabilia); Chapter Five: Plato's Socratic Seductions (Lysis); Chapter Six: Why Socrates Was Not a Farmer: Xenophon's Apology for Socrates in Oeconomicus; Bibliography.
