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Apology

by Plato

In 399 BC, Socrates stood before an Athenian jury and delivered the most famous defense speech in the history of philosophy. He was found guilty and sentenced to death — and he accepted the verdict without flinching. Plato's Apology is the record of that moment: a portrait of a man who believed so completely in the life of the mind that he chose death over silence. This Sequoia edition presents Benjamin Jowett's celebrated translation in a clean, beautifully formatted text designed for readers encountering Socrates for the first time and those returning to him again.

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