Volume 35, Number 5 · March 31, 1988
Cracking the Socrates Case
By M.F. Burnyeat
The Trial of Socrates
by I.F. Stone
Little, Brown, 282 pp., $18.95
When one legend writes about another, the result is bound to be explosive. One could read I.F. Stone's book as the most intemperate attack on Socrates since he was tried and found guilty in 399 BC. Some already have read the book that way, calling Stone a 'cultural philistine.'[1] A grave mistake.
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