The sources of Apology

1. Homer 2 authority 2 citations

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   Socrates paraphrases Iliadic speeches of Thetis and Achilles as authoritative exemplars of choosing honor over survival.

   For according to your argument all the demigods would be bad who died at Troy, including the son of Thetis, who so despised danger, in comparison with enduring any disgrace, that when his mother (and she was a goddess) said to him, as he was eager to slay Hector, something like this, I believe, My son, if you avenge the death of your friend Patroclus and kill Hector, you yourself shall die;

2. Aristophanes 1 refuted 1 citation

   apology

   Aristophanes's comedy is explicitly named as a work the Athenians witnessed, and Socrates denies the portrait it gave of him.

   For you yourselves saw these things in Aristophanes’ comedy, a Socrates being carried about there, proclaiming that he was treading on air and uttering a vast deal of other nonsense, about which I know nothing, either much or little.

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apology 4 sources

Books of Anaxagoras · Charges of old accusers (informal, unwritten) · Delphic oracle's pronouncement · Sworn indictment of Meletus

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1. Stromata Clement of Alexandria 1 endorsed 1 citation

   book 4

   The saying of Socrates is quoted with clear approval as illustrating the same fearlessness Clement is commending.

   "For Anytus and Meletus might indeed kill me, but harm me they could in no way;