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Apology

Ἀπολογία Σωκράτους

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Kind of writing: Philosophy
Dialect: Attic
Written: 5th–4th c. BC
Length: 2,276 words analysed
Vocabulary: 80% common words
In the library: 1 Greek text, 1 English translation

The texts

Each is the collection's own file, read unchanged from the Perseus Digital Library or Open Greek and Latin. The description is theirs too.

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The democracy that put a philosopher to deathThe trial of SocratesIn the spring of 399 BC, a jury of about five hundred Athenian citizens found the philosopher Socrates, aged about seventy, guilty of not believing in the city's gods, of bringing in new divine beings, and of corrupting the young.

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