Crito

by Plato

Reading #32 ("Memorabilia 2", 2025)

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Abstract

Socrates listens and responds to his longtime friend’s appeal to accept help escaping punishment after being sentenced to death in his trial from Apology.

Bibliographic Data

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Kind	Term
authors	Plato
literary form	dialogue
genres	Socratic dialogue
subjects	temptation narrative, philosophy, epistemology, ethics, civic duty, political philosophy, practical philosophy
period	Classical Greece, 5th c. BCE, 4th c. BCE
language	Ancient Greek, Attic Greek
same as	wikidata \| wikipedia
keywords & tags	#social-contract, #definition-of-impious, #subjective-vs-objective-truth, #moral-relativity, #the-good-life, #feasting-in-thessaly, #messianic-myth, #opinion-of-the-majority, #the-golden-rule, #help-your-friends-harm-your-enemies, #do-no-harm, #the-laws-speak
Index	17 entries

Contextual Relations

Refers To

Apology by Plato
Odyssey by Homer

Referenced By

Phaedo by Plato

Index

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@Plato-LCL36

@platoCrito, elocation 44 @platoCompleteWorks1997@platoCrito, p. 43

Links

Wikipedia
Public sources:
- Perseus Library, translated by Harold North Fowler
- Gutenberg, translated by Benjamin Jowett
Copyrighted sources:
- Hackett Publishing Company

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