Memories of Socrates - Memorabilia and Apology

Xenophon's Memorabilia and Apology provide a passionate defence of Socrates against the charges brought against him that lead to his execution. The two texts together provide a moving account of what happened immediately before, during, and after his trial.

List of contents

• Preface


• Introduction


• Note on the Greek Texts


• Select Bibliography


• Abbreviations


• Chronology


• Maps


• MEMORABILIA


• Book 1


• Book 2


• Book 3


• Book 4


• APOLOGY


• Explanatory Notes


• Glossary of Greek Terms

About the author

Martin Hammond was born in 1944 and educated at Winchester College and Balliol College, Oxford. He has taught at St Paul's School, Harrow School, and Eton College, where he was Head of Classics from 1974 to 1980, and Master in College from 1980 to 1984. He was Headmaster of the City of London School from 1984 to 1990, and of Tonbridge School from 1990 to his retirement in 2005. He is the translator of Artemidorus' The Interpretation of Dreams (Oxford World's Classics, 2020).

Carol Atack is a fellow and director of studies in Classics at Newnham College, Cambridge. She completed her PhD, on kingship in classical Greek political thought, at Cambridge in 2014, and also holds undergraduate degrees in Classics (Cambridge) and Politics (London School of Economics). She previously held teaching positions at St Hugh's College, Oxford, and the University of Warwick, and research positions at Oxford, on the Anachronism and Antiquity Project, and Cambridge, working on the Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World.

Summary

Xenophon's Memorabilia and Apology provide a passionate defence of Socrates against the charges brought against him that lead to his execution. The two texts together provide a moving account of what happened immediately before, during, and after his trial.

Product details

• Authors: Xenophon
• Assisted by: Carol Atack (Introduction), Atack Carol (Introduction), Martin Hammond (Translation), Hammond Martin (Translation)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.03.2023
• EAN: 9780198856092
• ISBN: 978-0-19-885609-2
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Oxford World's Classics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, Classical texts, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, Ancient, classical and medieval texts