Sloan Publishing - Chapter 12

Source Analysis

Website 12.1: Socrates
There are many web sites devoted to Socrates. Some of the best are:

An Athenian Agora Guide Book, Socrates in the Agora, by Mabel Lang is an excellent illustrated booklet that can be downloaded free (or purchased for $3.00) from the Athenian Agora Excavations:
http://www.agathe.gr/publications.html

A university site that contains a short discussion of Socrates and a link to the text in English of the Apology can be found at:
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/GREECE/SOCRATES.HTM

Some questions to answer from this site:
     What activities of Socrates motivated opposition to him?
     Who among his companions might have contributed to this opposition?
     Explain elenchus, dialectic

A longer discussion of Socrates by the noted historian of philosophy, W.K.C. Guthrie, can be found at:
http://socrates.clarke.edu/Guthrie.htm

Maps:
Map 12: The Pelopponnesian War (page 216)
Blank Map 12 (page 389)