Theaetetus, a young disciple of the famous geometrician Theodorus, is brought back to Athens by the army deadly wounded from the battle of Corinth. As he is approaching death he turns to philosophy, with the purpose of making the transition from mathematics to metaphysics. Socrates, who has an evident interest in Theaetetus, discusses with him about the nature of knowledge and how to attain it.
This edition of The Apology is the translation into English from the original Greek by Professor Benjamin Jowett from the third edition of The Dialogues of Plato published in five volumes by Oxford University Press in 1892. Jowett's translation of Plato is a reference in English literature and an artistic achievement in it's own right, preserving in beautiful English the spirit and the direct, clear and elevated style of Plato's writing.
