Work
Apology
Ἀπολογία Σωκράτους
By Plato.
- Kind of writing
- Philosophy
- Dialect
- Attic
- Written
- 5th–4th c. BC
- Length
- 10,313 words analysed
- Vocabulary
- 84% 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.
In The Painted Stoa
Entries that quote or point to this work's Greek.
A crown of wild olive, a truce, and statues paid for by cheatsThe Olympic GamesEvery four years for more than a thousand years, Greeks from all over the Mediterranean travelled to the sanctuary of Zeus at Olympia to watch naked men run, wrestle, box and race chariots.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.