The Trials of Socrates: Six Classic Texts

by James Doyle, Xenophon, Plato, et al.

Book Overview

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 writings of his contemporaries and near-contemporaries, he remains for us as compelling, enigmatic, and elusive a figure as Jesus or Buddha. Although present-day (like ancient Greek) opinion on the real Socrates...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0872205894
• ISBN13: 9780872205895
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.3" x 8.4"