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[GreekIslandGirl]

Are you preparing us for something?

[kurupetos]

Are you preparing us for something?

Was it really an apology?

[GreekIslandGirl]

Are you preparing us for something?

Was it really an apology?

No. The transliteration from Plato's, Απολογία, is misleading. In Greek it (απολογία) means "defence". Most scholarly texts refer to this (the greatest of all speeches) as the "Defence of Socrates".

There you go!

[kurupetos]

When Socrates inhaled the conium it woke him up and allowed his dreams, his nocturnal desires and random wishes, to condense into a semblance of rationality.

Then he kicked the bucket.

[kimon07]

Are you preparing us for something?

Was it really an apology?

No. The transliteration from Plato's, Απολογία, is misleading. In Greek it (απολογία) means "defence". Most scholarly texts refer to this (the greatest of all speeches) as the "Defence of Socrates".

There you go!

The real meaning of "apologia" is the one valid even today under the official Greek legal terminology. It means that the defendant gives his account/version of the facts of the case at the end of the hearing procedure, after all witnesses and other evidences have been examined. The "apologia" may contain acceptance or denial of the charges and, in case of acceptance, it may contain excuses by the defendant of how and why he/she was driven to the act, evaluation by him of his act and its severity.