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Crito

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Busto de Sócrates (Louvre)
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In prison, at dawn, his old friend Crito tells Socrates that the ship from Delos is about to arrive and offers him an escape, already arranged and paid for. Socrates examines whether it is just to flee: one must not answer an injustice with another, and the personified Laws of Athens remind him that for seventy years he has accepted living under them. It is the classic text on the obligation to obey the law and one of the first arguments about the compact between citizen and city.

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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.

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.

  • Crito

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

    Translation: Benjamin Jowett

    Dominio público.

    View in store · Project Gutenberg (gratuito)

Español

  • Critón o el deber

    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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