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The Apology of Socrates According to Plato

By: Plato & Benjamin Jowett

Narrated by: Robin Homer

Length: 1 hour 10 minutes

Abridged: No

The Apology of Socrates, written by Plato, is a Socratic dialogue of the speech of legal self-defence which Socrates spoke at his trial for impiety and corruption in 399 BC
Specifically, the Apology of Socrates is a defence against the charges of "corrupting the youth" and "not believing in the gods in whom the city believes, but in other... Read more

The Socratic Dialogues: Early Period

By: Benjamin Jowett

Narrated by: David Rintoul & Laurence Kennedy

Length: 6 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Here are the Socratic Dialogues presented as Plato designed them to be - living discussions between friends and protagonists, with the personality of Socrates himself coming alive as he deals with a host of subjects, from justice and inspiration to courage, poetry and the gods.

Plato's Socratic Dialogues provide a bedrock for classical Western... Read more

The Socratic Dialogues: Early Period

By: Benjamin Jowett

Narrated by: David Rintoul

Length: 10 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

Here, in this second collection of Socratic Dialogues from Plato's Early Period, read by David Rintoul as Socrates with a full cast, are contrasting six works. Often, as with Gorgias, which opens the recording, Socrates combats the popular subjects of sophistry and rhetoric, in direct conversation with Gorgias (a leading sophist teacher), and... Read more

The Socratic Dialogues: Middle Period

By: Benjamin Jowett

Narrated by: David Rintoul

Length: 8 hours 23 minutes

Abridged: No

Here are three important but very different Dialogues from the Middle Period. Symposium, the most well-known in this collection, is concerned with the theme of love. In the house of Agathon, a group of friends - each very different in personality and background - meet to consider and discuss various kinds of love. Each one, Phaedrus, Pausanias,... Read more

The Socratic Dialogues: Middle Period

By: Benjamin Jowett

Narrated by: David Rintoul & Laurence Kennedy

Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

The remarkable range of Plato's Dialogues is vividly demonstrated by these three works.

It opens with Phaedrus, a highly personal discussion between Socrates (David Rintoul) and the young, love-struck Phaedrus (Gunnar Cauthery). They go for a walk outside the walls of Athens and, under a plane tree by the banks of the Ilissus, talk about love -... Read more

The Socratic Dialogues: Middle Period

By: Benjamin Jowett

Narrated by: David Rintoul

Length: 12 hours

Abridged: No

The Republic is perhaps the single most important, the most studied and the most quoted text of all of Plato's Socratic Dialogues. Through the medium of Socrates, Plato outlines his view and ideas concerning the ideal working of the city-state.

Socrates narrates a conversation that took place the previous day with Cephalus, Glaucon, Thrasymachus... Read more

The Socratic Dialogues: Late Period

By: Benjamin Jowett

Narrated by: Hayward B. Morse & Laurence Kennedy

Length: 14 hours 9 minutes

Abridged: No

The Laws is the longest of Plato's Dialogues and actually doesn't feature Socrates at all - the principal figure taking the lead is the ‘Athenian Stranger' who engages two older men in the discussion, Cleinias (from Crete) and Megillus (from Sparta).

The Dialogue is set in Crete, and the three men embark on a pilgrimage from Knossus to the cave... Read more

The Socratic Dialogues: Late Period

By: Benjamin Jowett

Narrated by: David Rntoul & David Timson

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

These five very different Socratic Dialogues date from Plato's later period, when he was revisiting his early thoughts and conclusions and showing a willingness for revision.

In Timaeus (mainly a monologue read by David Timson in the title role), Plato considers cosmology in terms of the nature and structure of the universe, the ever-changing... Read more