Crito

For the first time in European thinking Socrates from Plato raises the crucial question of whether it is moral to rebel against the government while imprisoned and under pressure to avoid being put to death. There has been a lot of current literature inspired by Socrates' contentious response in Crito but no English commentary on the Greek text for seventy-five years. This new version intends to give readers—including those with advanced Greek skills—an up-to-date literary and philosophical critique. It serves as the perfect introduction to one of Classical Greece's finest thinkers as well as to the social and philosophical landscape of that time.