The Memorabilia (Summarized Edition)

The Memorabilia gathers Xenophon's recollections of Socrates, arranged thematically as a sustained defense against charges of impiety and corruption. In concise dialogues and vignettes, Socrates tutors Euthydemus, Aristodemus, and even the hostile Anytus in practical ethics—self-control, justice, piety, friendship, and civic responsibility. Xenophon's lucid, unadorned prose favors exempla, preserv...