![]() It was first presented at Pace University in a forum sponsored by the Philosophy Department during which faculty present their current research with a purpose of engaging in dialogue and perfecting it before the final presentation at a conference. The result was a sizeable scholarly paper with what we feel is an original analysis of the 'corruption' charge. ![]() ![]() ![]() Aside from the textual and hermeneutical analysis of the texts themselves, we concentrated on the authors' styles and motivations in order to assess the validity of their reports as well as gain a better insight into their respective world-views. The Platonic and Xenophonic texts were used in three out of the four courses in Classical Greek I took at Pace and thus were a natural choice for research as a thorough familiarity with the original text facilitated the research and allowed for a more thorough analysis of the historical, linguistic and philosophical differences between the aforementioned texts. Besides these two texts, a number of scholarly articles, books, and other source materials pertinent to the events and the figure of Socrates were used in research. in Athens with a focus on one of the prosecutor's charge of 'corrupting the youth of Athens.' The first was Plato's Apology and the other was Xenophon's Socrates on Trial. ![]() The project consisted of an analysis of two texts written in Classical Greek reporting on the trial of Socrates that took place in 399 B.C. ![]()
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