Socrates, daddy of Greek philosophy, is on trial for impiety and corrupting the youth. 

According to him, his only crime was trolling the city of Athens. 

The Apology is an account of Socrates’s court defence, told by his student Plato.  This is part 1 of a 4-part series on this book. 

Text of Plato’s Apology: http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/apology.html 

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