Socrates says that he will speak in the manner he has used in the agora and at the money tables which he states is his native tongue and the fashion of his country.
Socrates says he will not use sophisticated language-carefully arranged ornate words and phrases-but will speak using the common idiom of the Greek language.
Lysias XIX 1,2,3 Isaeus X 1 Isocrates XV 79 Aeschines II 24). In the course of the trial, Socrates imitates, parodies, and corrects the Orators, his accusers, and asks the jury to judge him by the truth of his statements, not by his oratorical skill ( cf. Socrates later clarifies that point of philosophy when he says that whatever wisdom he possesses comes from knowing that he knows nothing (23b, 29b). The first sentence of his speech establishes the theme of the dialogue-that philosophy begins with an admission of ignorance. The Apology of Socrates begins with Socrates addressing the jury of perhaps 500 Athenian men to ask if they have been persuaded by the Orators Lycon, Anytus, and Meletus, who have accused Socrates of corrupting the young people of the city and impiety against the pantheon of Athens. Moreover, during the trial, in his speech of self-defence, Socrates twice mentions that Plato is present at the trial (34a and 38b). Įxcept for Socrates's two dialogues with Meletus, about the nature and logic of his accusations of impiety, the text of the Apology of Socrates is in the first-person perspective and voice of the philosopher Socrates (24d–25d and 26b–27d). Aristotle believed the dialogue, particularly the scene where Socrates questions Meletus, represented a good use of interrogation. Although Aristotle later classified it as a genre of fiction, it is still a useful historical source about Socrates (469–399 BC) the philosopher. As such, Plato's Apology of Socrates is an early philosophic defence of Socrates, presented in the form of a Socratic dialogue. The Apology of Socrates, by the philosopher Plato (429–347 BC), was one of many explanatory apologia about Socrates's legal defense against accusations of corruption and impiety most apologia were published in the decade after the Trial of Socrates (399 BC).
Marble, Roman artwork (1st century), possibly a copy of a lost bronze statue by Lysippos. Plato from Raphael's The School of Athens (1509–1511)īust of Socrates.
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