Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgment
INTRODUCTION
 I. Bibliographical outlines
 II. Relative dating of early treatments of Socrates’ trial
 III. Sources for Socrates in general
 IV. Socrates’ daimonion or ‘divine sign’
 V. The trial of Socrates
  (A) The charge  (B) The prosecutors  (C) The procedures
 VI. Some issues in Socratic philosophy
  (A) General  (B) Wisdom, Knowledge and Ignorance  (C) Good and Bad  (D) Death  (E) A discrepancy with the Crito?
 VII. The text of this edition
ABBREVIATIONS
REFERENCES TO PLATO
BIBLIOGRAPHY
GREEK TEXT AND TRANSLATION
COMMENTARY
INDEX

About the Author

†Michael Stokes was Emeritus Professor of Greek at the University of Durham, where he held the Chair of Greek from 1974 to 1993. He was formerly Lecturer in Greek at the University of Edinburgh and Associate Professor of Classics at Cornell University. His publications include Dialectic in Action: an Examination of Plato's Crito (Classical Press of Wales, 2005), One and Many in Presocratic Philosophy (Center for Hellenic Studies, 1971) and Plato’s Socratic Conversations (Athlone Press & Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986).