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The Apology or Platonic defence of Socrates is divided into three parts: 1st.

The trial of Socrates Plato Xenophon democracy Athens. The statements of the Memorabilia respecting the trial and death of Socrates agree generally with Plato but they have lost the flavour of Socratic irony in the narrative of Xenophon. Finally, a pseudo-Platonic dialogue between Socrates and Anytus in which Socrates has to admit that democracy is the best constitution is presented. Moreover, a prosopographical study of the social circle around Socrates shows that a high number of his “friends” were citizens who had joined the oligarchic revolution 411 and 404-403 and had been convicted of treason and / or impiety. The third part discusses the political aspects of the trial, arguing that having raised political accusations against Socrates was not necessarily a violation of the amnesty of 403. The second part of the study reconstructs the trial based on a new assessment of sources. The first part discusses the sources, in particular, the evaluation by Xenophon’s Memorabilia.

This study reconstructs the trial of Socrates, especially, the case raised by the accusers. Platos Socrates provocatively tells his jury that he is a hero. THE TRIAL OF SOCRATES FROM THE ATHENIAN POINT OF VIEW. The trial of Socrates took place over a nine-to-ten hour period in the Peoples Court.