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Apology of Socrates

Ἀπολογία Σωκράτους

Busto de Sócrates (Louvre)
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Socrates' defence speech before the Athenian court in 399 BCE, in three parts: the defence against the "first accusers" and against Meletus; the counter-proposal of a penalty after the verdict; and closing words to the jurors. It contains the account of the Delphic oracle, the image of the gadfly that rouses the city, the statement that he will obey the god rather than the Athenians and the dictum that the unexamined life is not worth living. It is the main source for reconstructing the trial and Socrates' understanding of himself.

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Authorship note

A work by Plato, not by Socrates. It is a literary recreation composed after his teacher's death: it preserves features of the historical Socrates, but his words are those Plato gives him. Plato says he was present at the trial (34a, 38b), which does not guarantee that the text reproduces the actual speech; Xenophon wrote another version.

Editions and translations

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English

  • Plato I: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo (Loeb Classical Library 36) — Socrates

    Plato I: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo (Loeb Classical Library 36)

    Harvard University Press, 2017

    Translation: Chris Emlyn-Jones y William Preddy

    ISBN 9780674996878

    Edición bilingüe griego-inglés.

  • The Last Days of Socrates: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo — Socrates

    The Last Days of Socrates: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo

    Penguin Classics, 2003

    Translation: Hugh Tredennick y Harold Tarrant

    ISBN 9780140449280

    Reeditada en 2010 con ISBN 9780140455496.

  • Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo — Socrates

    Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo

    Hackett Publishing, 2002

    Translation: G. M. A. Grube, rev. John M. Cooper

    ISBN 9780872206335

    2.ª edición; registro de Open Library de 2005.

  • Apology

    Project Gutenberg (trad. de Benjamin Jowett, Clarendon Press), 1892

    Translation: Benjamin Jowett

    Dominio público.

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Español

  • Apología de Sócrates

    Filosofía en español (Obras completas de Platón, Medina y Navarro), 1871

    Translation: Patricio de Azcárate

    Tomo 1 de la edición de 1871–1872. Dominio público.

    View in store · Filosofía en español (gratuito)

  • Diálogos I: Apología, Critón, Eutifrón, Ion, Lisis, Cármides, Hipias menor, Hipias mayor, Laques, Protágoras

    Gredos (Biblioteca Clásica Gredos, 37), 1981

    Translation: J. Calonge Ruiz, E. Lledó Íñigo y C. García Gual

    ISBN 9788424900816

    Introducción general de Emilio Lledó.

Other works by Socrates

Sources

  • Platón. Platonis Opera, ed. John Burnet, 5 vols. Oxford University Press (Oxford Classical Texts), 1900–1907; tomo I (Eutifrón, Apología, Critón, Fedón) consultado en la edición digital del Perseus Digital Library (Tufts University).

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