Collection of historical evidence

Contents: To the reader .........5Preface. The Judgment of Contemporaries .......8Plato. Apology of Socrates. Translation by M. S. Solovyov............45Xenophon. Apology (defense) of Socrates at trial. Translation by S.I. Sobolevsky......90Xenophon. Memories of Socrates. Book 1. Ch. 1-4. Translation by S. I. Sobolevsky.......101Apology of Socrates by the rhetorician Libanius. Translation by M. A Raitsina................138Diogenes Laertius. Socrates. Translation by M. L. Gasparov 219Plutarch. About the demon of Socrates. Translation by Ya. M. Borovsky ................235Afterword. Judgment of descendants .......246About the authors .......256Basic literature .......261