The trials of Socrates: six classic texts
by Plato, Reeve, C. D. C., Meineck, Peter, Doyle, James, Aristophanes, Xenophon
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Lampooned in 406 B.C.E. in a blistering Aristophanic satire, Socrates was tried in 399 B.C.E. on a charge of corrupting the youth, convicted by a jury of about five hundred of his peers, and condemned to death. Glimpsed today through the extant writings of his contemporaries and…