Book
399 BCE
Apology
Plato
Socrates defends his practice of questioning Athens's authorities at his trial, arguing that an unexamined life is not worth living even at the cost of his own.
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- Assumes
- nothing; it is the trial of Socrates told plainly, and the usual place to start with Plato
- This translation
- Jowett's 1871 translation. Free and perfectly readable; a modern translation will sit closer to the Greek if you go on to more Plato.
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