Memorabilia of Socrates
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Memorabilia of Socrates
| Full title | Memorabilia (Memoirs of Socrates) |
|---|---|
| Author | Xenophon |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Xenophon’s defence of Socrates, told through recollected conversations — advising a son on his mother, a general on command, a friend on poverty, a young man on self-control. Where Plato’s Socrates is a metaphysician, Xenophon’s is relentlessly practical, and this is the main check on Plato’s portrait. |
Where I heard about it
- Brendan McCord — on his Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List, in Classical Greek Political Philosophy, alongside Plato’s dialogues, where the curriculum sets up its two competing accounts of the examined life — the philosophical and the practical, March 2026. Full list: The Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List.
About this edition
Composed in Greek in the fourth century BC, so there is no single publication date; page counts vary widely by translation.
Connections
- Socrates — the subject; this is one of only two surviving first-hand portraits.
- Plato — the other portrait, and the one this book is usually read against.
- The Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List — the curriculum this came from.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.