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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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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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Preface Introduction PART I: ORIGINAL SOURCES 1. ARISTOPHANES Clouds ll. 358-407, 476-492, 627-680, 723-756, 825-830: 2. PLATO Euthyphro (complete): Apology of Socrates (complete): Crito (complete): Phaedo (death scene: 116a-118a): 3. XENOPHON Apology of Socrates (complete): Memorabilia 1.1.1-1.2.39, 1.2.47-1.3.15, 4.7.1-4.8.11: 4. DIOGENES LAERTIUS On the Lives and Opinions of Eminent Persons in Philosophy. 2.18, 24, 29, 37-43: 5. 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 6. 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: PART II: RECENT SCHOLARSHIP 7. WHY WAS SOCRATES PROSECUTED? . M.F. Burnyeat, "The Impiety of Socrates" Robert Parker, "The Trial of Socrates: And a Religious Crisis?" Mark L. McPherran, "Does Piety Pay? Socrates on Prayer and Sacrifice" Thomas C. Brickhouse and Nicholas D. Smith, from Plato's Socrates 8. SOCRATES AND OBEDIENCE TO THE LAW Richard Kraut, from Socrates and the State Thomas C. Brickhouse and Nicholas D. Smith, from Plato's Socrates 9. DID PLATO TELL THE TRUTH ABOUT THE DEATH OF SOCRATES? Christopher Gill, "The Death of Socrates" Enid Bloch, "Hemlock Poisoning and the Death of Socrates: Did Plato Tell the Truth? Works Cited

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