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Right here multi functional booklet are the 4 vintage money owed of the trial and loss of life of Socrates!
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Christopher Rowe, Plato and the Art of Philosophical Writing (Cambridge, 2007). ) Gerasimos Santas, Goodness and Justice: Plato, Aristotle and the Moderns (Oxford, 2001). Nicholas D. Smith and Thomas Brickhouse, Plato’s Socrates (Oxford, 1994). I. F. Stone, The Trial of Socrates (Boston, 1987). Thomas Szlezák, Reading Plato (London,1999). ) C. C. W. Taylor, A Very Short Introduction to Socrates (Oxford, 2000). ) Gregory Vlastos, Socrates: Ironist and Moral Philosopher (Ithaca, 1991). ) Robin Waterfield, Why Socrates Died: Dispelling the Myths (London, 2009).
2b EUTHYPHRO What do you mean? Someone must have indicted you – I won’t accuse you of indicting anyone. SOCRATES I should think not. EUTHYPHRO Someone’s indicted you? SOCRATES Exactly. EUTHYPHRO Who’s that? SOCRATES I scarcely know the man myself, Euthyphro; it appears he’s a young person no one knows, but I think they call him by the name of Meletus. The deme he belongs to is Pitthus, if you can call to mind a Meletus from Pitthus with long straight hair, not much of a beard but more of a nose.
4 EUTHYPHRO Flying is something he’d find difficult; he’s not just old, but very old. SOCRATES Who is it? EUTHYPHRO My father. SOCRATES Your father, my fine friend? EUTHYPHRO Exactly. SOCRATES What’s the charge, and what’s the basis of the case? EUTHYPHRO It’s for homicide, Socrates. SOCRATES Heracles! It’s certainly something most people don’t know about, Euthyphro, what’s right and what’s not; I don’t think 4b acting as you are is for just anyone – it’d have to be someone who’s already a long way along the road to wisdom.