In Plato's dialogues- Euthyphro, Apology, and Crito, and a short excerpt of Phaedo-readers will find Socrates at his most moral, compelling, defiant, and wry. Reeve has broadened our view of Socrates by adding the perspectives of Aristophanes and Xenophon to some of Plato's best-known writing on the great philosopher. With The Trials of Socrates, editor C.D.C. Most of what we do know comes from his star pupil, Plato, who wrote a couple dozen dialogues about his teacher's encounters with other Athenians. We know little for certain about Socrates because he never wrote down his philosophy. Loved by some, lampooned by others, both revered and reviled, as an old man he was put to death.
Socrates has puzzled thinkers and historians for 2,400 years. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. An Introduction to each text and judicious footnotes provide crucial background information and important cross-references. Those of Plato and Xenophon appear in new, previously unpublished translations that combine accuracy, accessibility, and readability that of Aristophanes' Clouds offers these same qualities in an unbowdlerized translation that captures brilliantly the bite of Aristophanes' wit. Although present-day (like ancient Greek) opinion on the real Socrates diverges widely, six classic texts that any informed judgment of him must take into account appear together, for the first time, in this volume. 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.
on a charge of corrupting the youth, convicted by a jury of about five hundred of his peers, and condemned to death. in a blistering Aristophanic satire, Socrates was tried in 399 B.C.E.
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