title: The Trials of Socrates: Six Classic Texts
author: Plato
description: Socrates has puzzled thinkers and historians for 2,400 years. Loved by some, lampooned by others, both revered and reviled, as an old man he was put to death. We know little for certain about Socrates because he never wrote down his philosophy. Most of what we do know comes from his star pupil, Plato, who wrote a couple dozen dialogues about his teacher's encounters with other Athenians. With <I>The Trials of Socrates</I>, editor C.D.C. Reeve has broadened our view of Socrates by adding the perspectives of Aristophanes and Xenophon to some of Plato's best-known writing on the great philosopher.
zlib_text: R o u t l e d g e  P h i l o s o p h y  G u i d e B o o k  t o
  Plato and
  The Trial of Socrates
  
  R o u t l e d g e  P h i l o s o p h y  G u i d e B o o k  t o
  Plato and
  The Trial of Socrates
  Thomas C.
  Brickhouse
  and
  Nicholas D.
  Smith
  
  First published 2004 by Routledge
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  Simultaneously published in the UK
  by Routledge
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  © 2004 Thomas C. Brickhouse and Nicholas D. Smith
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  Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
  Brickhouse, Thomas C., 1947–
  Routledge philosophy guidebook to Plato and the trial of Socrates/Thomas
  C. Brickhouse and Nicholas D. 