A Companion to Socrates

“In my end is my beginning”: that apparently applies to Socrates too, for the opening chapter of this volume is Debra Nails's The Trial and Death of Socrates. But it is also a starting point: for after Section I's eight chapters on Biography and Sources, the remaining twenty‐two discuss Socrates beyond his death. Section II is simply Plato with eight chapters discussing Socrates and his philosophy through Plato's dialogues. Section III moves on into Hellenistic Philosophy with three papers, and the final two sections take his influence From the Medieval Period to Modernity and on to The Modern Period.

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