<p>'I'll stop doing it as soon as I understand what I'm doing.' Somewhere between a historical account and work of philosophy, Socrates' Defence details the final plea of Plato's beloved mentor. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Plato (474 BC-347 BC). Plato's works available in Penguin Classics are Republic, The Last Days of Socrates, The Laws, Phaedrus, Protagoras and Meno, Timaeus and Critias, Theaetetus, Early Socratic Dialogues, The Symposium and Gorgias.</p>

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Excerpt from Selections From Plato: The Philosophy of Socrates; The Apology; The PhædoHE fifth century before Christ was the first truly glorious period of Grecian History. It was a glori ous period for the world, and glorious for the world be cause glorious for Greece. The despots of Persia - that ancient abode of extreme, sickening conservatism - had made great but futile efforts to strangle the new and vigorous young Child Of liberty. To the Asiatic East, Greece was an ill-shapen child, and, according to custom, as much Grecian as barbarian, the Persian felt she should be destroyed. He would not run the risk of allowing her merely to be exposed to death on some Mt. Ida of com mercial and military isolation; he would be positive. Greece exposed, alone, free, would surely ﬂourish. She must be murdered directly.We all know the stories of Marathon and Thermo pylae, of Salamis and Plataea. We know how those free born men of Greece refused to bow to the overlordship of their eastern enemies, refused adoption at the hands of Persia, refused the enervating life and certain death that was planned for them. When, about 460 B. C., Greece had safely emerged from the conﬂict with despotism and was well embarked on her great career of literary.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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