GRST 205 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2-14: Sogdia, Semonides Of Amorgos, Plebs

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Greek and Roman Studies
• Course: GRST 205
• Professor: Lindsay Gayle Driediger- Murphy

Document Summary

The apology -an account of socrates public trial that his student and admirerer, plato wrote. Socrates says other men claim to be wise, when they"re not. He said he is not wise, and he knows it, and asks if that makes him wiser than the common man. I am a gadfly, given to the state by god which means that he thinks the state is lazy, and must be stirred to life by his prodding ect. You will not easily find another like me, and therfore i would advise you to spare me. Plutarch, on the fortune of alexander (written in 2nd c. bc much after. He says that alexander had self control, and courage. Plutarch makes it sound like alexander meant to conquer all these places and spread greece culture, but modern historians think it may have been accidental.