Socrates defends his life of questioning before an Athenian jury, refusing to beg for his acquittal.
Books that mention Apology (4)
The Just City by Jo Walton: ““I thought you were dead.” I had wept for him, reading the Apology.”
Necessity by Jo Walton: “it's like you said in the Apology, or was it the Crito, about agreeing to be bound by the laws of a city?”
Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea by Emily Wilson: “In Plato's Apology the play is said to have contributed to the case against Socrates”
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill: “Impiety, in denying the gods recognised by the State; indeed his accuser asserted (see the "Apologia") that he believed in no gods at all.”