Κρίτων vs Ἀπολογία Σωκράτους: Which Should You Read?

Κρίτων Πλάτων · 1833 ★★★★☆ 4.1 64 pages · ≈ 1 h 11 m · Demanding

The Critias is a fragment which breaks off in the middle of a sentence. It was designed to be the second part of a trilogy, which, like the other great Platonic trilogy of the Sophist, Statesman, Philosopher, was never…

Ἀπολογία Σωκράτους Plato · 1675 ★★★★☆ 3.9 124 pages · ≈ 2 h 18 m · Demanding

There is a well-known saying that the whole of Western Philosophy is footnotes of Plato. This is because his writings have set the schema that philosophy can be said to have followed ever since. Following the teachings…