Books on, about or relevant to

Plato's "Apology"


  • Allen, R. E., Socrates and Legal Obligation (Minneapolis:University of Minnesota Press, 1980).
  • Beckman, J., The Religious Dimension of Socrates' Thought (Waterloo,Ontario: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 1979).
  • Brickhouse, Thomas C., and Smith, Nicholas D., Socrates on Trial (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989).
  • Burkert, W., Greek Religion (Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1985).
  • Burnet, J., Greek Philosophy: Thales to Plato (London: Macmillan, 1914).
  • Burnet, J., Plato's Euthyphro, Apology of Socrates and Crito (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1924).
  • Dover, K.J., Greek Homosexuality (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1978).
  • Ferguson, J., Socrates: A Source Book (London: Macmillan, 1970).
  • Grube, G.M.A., The Trial and Death of Socrates (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1975).
  • Guthrie, W.K.C., Socrates (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971).
  • Hackforth, R., The Composition of Plato's Apology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1933).
  • Irwin, Terence, Plato's Ethics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995).
  • Kraut, Richard, (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Plato (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992).
  • Murdoch, Iris, Acastos : Two Platonic Dialogues (London: Chatto & Windus, 1986).
  • Nussbaum, M.C., The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986)
  • Reeve, C.D.C., Socrates in the Apology (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 1989).
  • Robinson, Richard, Plato's Earlier Dialectic (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1953).
  • Ryle, G., Plato's Progress (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1966).
  • Shorey, Paul, The Unity of Plato's Thought (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960).
  • Stone, I.F., The Trial of Socrates (New York: Little and Brown, 1988).
  • Taylor, A.E., Plato: The Man and his Work (London: Methuen, 1948).
  • Vlastos, Gregory, Platonic Studies 2nd Edition (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981).
  • West, T.G., Plato's Apology of Socrates (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1979).

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