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Author Danzig, Gabriel, 1961-

Title Apologizing for Socrates : how Plato and Xenophon created our Socrates / Gabriel Danzig
Published Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (280 pages)
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; Acknowledgments; Chapter One:Plato and Xenophon on Socrates' Behavior in Court (Be Apologies); Chapter Two:Building a Community under Fire (Crito); Chapter Three: Disgracing Meletus (Euthyphro); Chapter Four: Xenophon's Socratic Seductions (Memorabilia); Chapter Five: Plato's Socratic Seductions (Lysis); Chapter Six: Why Socrates Was Not a Farmer: Xenophon's Apology for Socrates in Oeconomicus; Bibliography
Summary Apologizing for Socrates places some of the Platonic and Xenophontic writings in the context of contemporary controversies over Socrates, providing a perspective in which many of the philosophic and literary features of the text can be explained. In addition, it sheds light on the apologetic techniques used by Plato and Xenophon
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-274) and index
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Subject Socrates
Plato
Xenophon
SUBJECT Plato fast
Socrates fast
Xenophon fast
Plato v427-v347 gnd
Socrates v469-v399 gnd
Xenophon v430-v354 gnd
Sokrates. idszbz
Platon. idszbz
Xenophon. idszbz
Socrate, (0469?-0399? av. J.-C.) ram
Platon, (0427?-0348? av. J.-C.) ram
Xénophon, (0430?-0355? av. J.-C.) ram
Plato. swd
Socrates. swd
Xenophon. swd
Subject PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Ancient & Classical.
Motiv.
Philosophie.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020739851
ISBN 9780739132463
0739132466