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Socrates in Aristophanes’ CloudsAristophanes

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Socrates in Aristophanes’ Clouds

Aristophanes turns Socrates into the comic director of a Thinkery where natural science and deceptive argument promise escape from debts. This contemporary caricature witnesses the philosopher’s public image, not a neutral report of his teaching.

What you will learn

Composition: first performed in 423 BCE; later revision
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 123 passages · 14,262 words

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Socrates in Plato’s ApologyPlato

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Socrates in Plato’s Apology

Plato’s witness stages Socrates defending a life of examination against charges of impiety and corruption. His oracle-related mission, questioning of Meletus, and refusal to flatter construct a philosophical portrait under judicial pressure.

What you will learn

Composition: c. 399-390 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 26 passages · 11,771 words

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Socrates in Plato’s CharmidesPlato

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Socrates in Plato’s Charmides

Plato shows Socrates returning from campaign, attentive to the beautiful Charmides yet redirecting the encounter toward temperance and care of the soul. His questioning leads Charmides and then Critias from confident definitions to acknowledged difficulty.

What you will learn

Composition: c. 399-380 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 24 passages · 11,134 words

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Socrates in Plato’s CritoPlato

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Socrates in Plato’s Crito

In prison, Plato’s Socrates refuses Crito’s escape plan. He places justice above survival and makes the Laws of Athens speak to test a citizen’s commitments toward a city capable of condemning him unjustly.

What you will learn

Composition: c. 399-390 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 12 passages · 7,893 words

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Socrates in Plato’s EuthyphroPlato

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Socrates in Plato’s Euthyphro

On the eve of trial, Socrates questions a man certain he understands holiness. Plato’s inquiry shows the questioner separating example, definition, and cause until reaching the dilemma between divine approval and holy value.

What you will learn

Composition: c. 399-390 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 15 passages · 6,994 words

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Socrates in Plato’s GorgiasPlato

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Socrates in Plato’s Gorgias

Facing three defenders of rhetoric and power, Plato’s Socrates argues that speech without knowledge of justice is flattery. He prefers suffering injustice to deforming his soul by committing it.

What you will learn

Composition: c. 390-380 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 81 passages · 42,811 words

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Socrates in Plato’s LachesPlato

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Socrates in Plato’s Laches

Plato places Socrates among fathers and generals judging military training. By asking what courage is before advising children, he turns professional standing and combat experience into objects of examination.

What you will learn

Composition: c. 399-380 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 24 passages · 11,014 words

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Socrates in Plato’s MenoPlato

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Socrates in Plato’s Meno

The Meno presents Socrates refusing to say whether virtue is teachable before it is defined. His midwifery, staged with an enslaved boy, answers the paradox of inquiry without turning questioning into simple transmission of doctrine.

What you will learn

Composition: c. 390-380 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 31 passages · 13,779 words

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Socrates in Plato’s PhaedoPlato

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Socrates in Plato’s Phaedo

Phaedo’s report gives Socrates his final arguments, corrections, and gesture before the hemlock. Plato joins calm before death, examination of immortality, and care for friends in a composed memorial portrait.

What you will learn

Composition: c. 385-370 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 62 passages · 30,892 words

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Socrates in Plato’s PhaedrusPlato

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Socrates in Plato’s Phaedrus

Outside Athens’ walls, Plato shows Socrates improvising and then recanting a speech about love. The character becomes inspired speaker, analyst of soul, and critic of writing unable to answer questions.

What you will learn

Composition: c. 370-360 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 53 passages · 23,263 words

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Socrates in Plato’s ProtagorasPlato

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Socrates in Plato’s Protagoras

Plato confronts Socrates’ short questioning with the extended speeches of the sophist Protagoras. The Socratic character seeks unity among virtues, questions courage and pleasure, and destabilizes his opening claim that virtue is not teachable.

What you will learn

Composition: c. 399-380 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 54 passages · 23,719 words

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Socrates in Plato’s RepublicPlato

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Socrates in Plato’s Republic

In the Republic, Plato gives Socrates construction of a city in speech to answer the challenge that injustice pays. The questioner of the opening exchanges also becomes narrator of highly developed educational, political, and metaphysical models.

What you will learn

Composition: c. 390-370 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 278 passages · 124,617 words

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Socrates in Plato’s SymposiumPlato

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Socrates in Plato’s Symposium

The Symposium presents Socrates as a strange object of desire and transmitter of Diotima’s teaching on Eros. His endurance, irony, and inner beauty finally appear through Alcibiades’ passionate praise.

What you will learn

Composition: c. 385-370 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 52 passages · 23,769 words

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Socrates in Plato’s TheaetetusPlato

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Socrates in Plato’s Theaetetus

Plato makes Socrates a midwife to Theaetetus’ thoughts: he helps deliver and test definitions without claiming to transmit knowledge of his own. Perception, judgement, and account reveal the fertility of inquiry that nevertheless ends without an answer.

What you will learn

Composition: c. 369-360 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 69 passages · 34,012 words

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Socrates in Xenophon’s ApologyXenophon

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Socrates in Xenophon’s Apology

Xenophon explains Socrates’ proud courtroom manner through his conviction that timely death is preferable to decline in old age. The divine sign and deliberate choice not to prepare persuasive defence structure a portrait distinct from Plato’s.

What you will learn

Composition: c. 390-360 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 34 passages · 2,999 words

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Socrates in Xenophon’s MemorabiliaXenophon

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Socrates in Xenophon’s Memorabilia

Xenophon defends Socrates against charges of impiety and corruption by gathering conversations, advice, and exemplary scenes. His Socrates teaches through questions but also through positive counsel on self-command, friendship, management, and civic service.

What you will learn

Composition: c. 385-355 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 39 passages · 45,044 words

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Socrates in Xenophon’s OeconomicusXenophon

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Socrates in Xenophon’s Oeconomicus

In the Oeconomicus, Socrates questions Critobulus about wealth, household management, and use of possessions, then reports the teaching of Ischomachus. The Socratic frame organizes inquiry into domestic command rather than economics in the modern sense.

What you will learn

Composition: c. 380-350 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 21 passages · 22,477 words

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Socrates in Xenophon’s SymposiumXenophon

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Socrates in Xenophon’s Symposium

At Callias’ banquet, Xenophon shows Socrates joking, dancing, discussing beauty and desire, then defending a love that forms character. Games, performances, and boasts give this portrait a more domestic tone than Plato’s Symposium.

What you will learn

Composition: c. 380-350 BCE
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 9 passages · 14,033 words