Book 1, The Last Days of Socrates: Chapter 1, Introductory Notes Summary and Analysis

This book has been prepared by scholars and professional editors. It is designed to be able to serve the educational market, especially university and college students. Many of the notes are provided for a specific reason. There is much that it considered to be timeless about the material, and immediately valuable to readers of today. At the same time, it is an ancient text and as such, scholars readily admit that providing information that helps readers to put the contents into context is really very helpful.

Readers should be aware that each of these dialogs is so famous, especially within the field of philosophy, that multiple editions are readily available from a variety of publishers. The bulk of these will be quite good. The edition...