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This etext was furbish upd by Sue Asscher APOLOGY by Plato Translated by benzoin Jowett INTRODUCTION. In what relation the Apology of Plato stands to the real demurral of Socrates, at that place are no means of determining. It for certain agrees in tone and fictitious character with the description of Xenophon, who says in the Memorabilia that Socrates might have been acquitted if in any correspond degree he would have conciliated the opt of the dicasts; and who informs us in another passage, on the testimony of Hermogenes, the friend of Socrates, that he had no wish to live; and that the divine sign refused to in stomach him to prepare a defence, and also that Socrates himself declared this to be unnecessary, on the ground that all his life long he had been preparing against that hour. For the lecture breathes throughout a spirit of defiance, (ut non supplex aut reus sed magister aut dominus videretur esse judicum (Cic. de Orat.); and the loose and desultory style is an imitation of the accustomed manner in which Socrates spoke in the square and among the tables of the money-changers. The allusion in the Crito whitethorn, perhaps, be adduced as a further severalise of the literal accuracy of nigh parts.

But in the primary(prenominal) it must be regarded as the ideal of Socrates, according to Platos creation of him, appearing in the greatest and most public mise en scene of his life, and in the height of his triumph, when he is weakest, and yet his bid everywhere mankind is greatest, and his habitual irony acquires a new plaza and a sort o f tragic pathos in the establishment of de! ath. The facts of his life are summed up, and the features of his character are brought out as if by accident in the course of the defence. The conversational manner, the seem want of arrangement, the ironical simplicity, are found to result in a perfect work of art, which is the portrait of Socrates. Yet more or less of the topics may have been actually used by Socrates; and the retrospect of his in truth words...If you want to get a all-embracing essay, order it on our website: OrderCustomPaper.com

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