Close reading Plato’s Apology, part 9

The crowd is getting restless

Jim Esch
4 min readNov 15, 2021

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Up to this point, Socrates has been flouting this pretentious show trial, seeing through the charade. Evidently, a ruckus was raised.

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Men of Athens, do not interrupt, but hear me; there was an understanding between us that you should hear me to the end: I have something more to say, at which you may be inclined to cry out…

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