biography of Socrates
TITLE: biography: Antiquity
...Plato’s life of Socrates keeps to strict biographical truth cannot now be ascertained (though the account of Socrates given by Plato’s contemporary the soldier Xenophon, in his Memorabilia, suggests a reasonable faithfulness) and he does not offer a full-scale biography. Yet in his two consummate biographical dialogues—The Apology...
depiction of Socrates
Among the compositions of Xenophon, the one that gives the fullest portrait of Socrates is Memorabilia. The first two chapters of Book I of this work are especially important, because they explicitly undertake a refutation of the charges made against Socrates at his trial; they are therefore a valuable supplement to Xenophon’s Apology, which is devoted entirely to the...