SCRIPTURA

Philosophy

Apology · Ἀπολογία Σωκράτους

Plato

Translated by Harold North Fowler

Socrates’ defence at his trial in 399 BC: the oracle, the gadfly, and why he will not stop doing philosophy.

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  • Greek: ed. John Burnet, from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-greekLit, tlg0059.tlg002, CC BY-SA 4.0).
  • English: Harold North Fowler, from the Perseus Digital Library (tlg0059.tlg002.perseus-eng2). Notes are not included.
  • Rows follow the references the two texts share (chapters and sections), cut where both reach the end of a sentence.

Contents · 3

  1. 1Sections 17a–25c
  2. 2Sections 25d–33c
  3. 3Sections 33d–42a