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Putting the Case
Leonard, John | February 27, 1988 issue

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The article focuses on the book "The Trial Of Socrates," by I.F. Stone. The more Socrates goes on about absolute definitions of universals like Virtue, the more Stone wants him to get an honest job. They would not have liked each other in the agora or the Pryntaneum. Stone's Socrates is likable only when he's in prison, between the verdict and the hemlock, turning Aesop's fables into lyric verse. Stone is at pains to establish that Socrates did not defend himself at his trial with "loftiness of style and boldness of speech," as it sometimes reads in translation.

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TRIAL of Socrates, The (Book); STONE, I. F.; BOOKS; LITERATURE; SPEECH; VERSE drama
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