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Plato’s Trial of Athens (Bloomsbury Studies in Ancient Philosophy)

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What are we able to learn in regards to the trial of Socrates from Plato’s dialogues? Most scholars say we will learn so much from the Apology, but not from the remainder. Plato’s Trial of Athens rejects this assumption and argues that Plato used several of his dialogues to turn the tables on Socrates’ accusers: they blamed Socrates for something the city had done to itself. Plato wanted to set the record straight and save his city from repeating her worst mistakes of the 5th century.

Plato’s Trial of Athens addresses challenging questions in regards to the historicity of Plato’s dialogues, and it traces Plato’s critique of Athenian public life and polis culture from the trial in 399 up during the Laws and the Atlantis myth within the Critias and Timaeus. After all, Ralkowski shows that what started as a bitter response to the unjust, politically-charged trial of Socrates, evolved into a pessimistic reflection at the role of philosophy in a democratic society, a theory about Athens’ 5th century decline, and cautionary tale in regards to the corrupting influences of naval imperialism.

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