Apologizing for Socrates: How Plato and Xenophon Created Our Socrates

By Gabriel Danzig

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 073913244X
• ISBN13: 9780739132449
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.1"