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Memorabilia (Memoirs of Socrates)
Ἀπομνημονεύματα
Four books that begin by refuting one by one the charges of impiety and corruption of the young, and go on to dozens of short conversations: Socrates advises his son Lamprocles to be patient with Xanthippe, talks with the sophist Antiphon about poverty, with Aristippus about self-mastery, with craftsmen and generals about their trades. It is the portrait of a practical and pious teacher and the second great source on Socrates alongside Plato.
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Authorship note
A work by Xenophon (c. 430–354 BCE), a pupil of Socrates in his youth, who was in Asia at the time of the trial. It mixes his own memories, others' reports and literary elaboration with an apologetic aim.
Editions and translations
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English
Conversations of Socrates
Penguin Classics, 1990
Translation: Hugh Tredennick y Robin Waterfield
ISBN 9780140445176
Incluye la Apología, las Memorables, el Banquete y el Económico.
Socrates
The Memorabilia
The Conscious LibraryThe Memorabilia
Project Gutenberg (trad. de H. G. Dakyns, Macmillan, 1890–1897), 1897
Translation: Henry Graham Dakyns
Dominio público.
Español
Socrates
Recuerdos de Sócrates. Económico. Banquete. Apología de Sócrates
The Conscious LibraryRecuerdos de Sócrates. Económico. Banquete. Apología de Sócrates
Gredos (Biblioteca Clásica Gredos, 182), 1993
Translation: Juan Zaragoza
ISBN 9788424916190
Apología. Banquete. Recuerdos de Sócrates
Alianza Editorial, 2022
Translation: José Antonio Caballero López
ISBN 9788413626697
Other works by Socrates
- Apology of Socrates · 395
- Crito · 395
- Phaedo · 385
- Euthyphro · 395
- Symposium · 380
- Laches · 390
- Charmides · 390
- Lysis · 390
- Protagoras · 385
- Gorgias · 385
- Meno · 385
- Ion · 395
- Lesser Hippias · 395
- Euthydemus · 385
- Theaetetus · 369
- Phaedrus · 370
- Republic · 375
- Greater Hippias · 390
- First Alcibiades · 360
- Parmenides · 365
- Other dialogues of the Platonic corpus featuring Socrates · 360
- Apology of Socrates (Xenophon) · 380
- Symposium (Xenophon) · 380
- Oeconomicus (The Estate Manager) · 362
- The Clouds (Aristophanes) · 423
- Aristotle's testimonies on Socrates · 340
- Life of Socrates (Diogenes Laertius, Lives II 18–47) · 230
- Fragments of the other Socratics (Aeschines of Sphettus, Antisthenes, Phaedo, Euclides) · 380
- Verses composed in prison (lost) · 399
- Socratic Epistles · 200
Sources
- Jenofonte. Memorables (Recuerdos de Sócrates), Apología de Sócrates, Banquete y Económico. Texto griego: Xenophontis opera omnia, ed. E. C. Marchant, vol. 2, 2.ª ed., Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1921 (Perseus); trad. inglesa de H. G. Dakyns, The Works of Xenophon, Macmillan, Londres, 1890–1897 (Project Gutenberg).
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