SOCRATES ON
THE WEB
A good place to start is the Last
Days of Socrates site, from Clarke College, Dubuque, Iowa, which has
annotated hypertext versions of four of Plato's most important  dialogues
about Socrates: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito and Phaedo.
The background information in these links is excellent. The site also has
audio clips from some of the texts.
All of Plato's dialogues (in the well-known Jowett translations)
are available in the Internet
Classics Archive, which is a searchable collection of more than 350
ancient Greek and Roman texts in translation, including a translation of
Aristophanes's The
Clouds, and Dryden's translation of Plutarch's Life
Of Alcibiades.
Many relevant texts are available in Greek, with morphological
links, at the Perseus Project
of Tufts University. Perseus also has a searchable encyclopaedia of the
ancient world, secondary sources, maps and a large range of classical texts
in English translation. Carl Conrad's Classics
Resource is a good place to start any research on classical topics.
The Stanford Encyclopaedia
of Philosophy and the Internet
Encyclopaedia of Philosophy can be used to look up plenty of philosophical
terms and concepts, places and people that are relevant to the study of
Socrates. (They can be used, for example, to find further information about
some of the lesser-known figures mentioned in my book, such as Antisthenes.)
The Hippias search engine
trawls through all sorts of philosophical resources on the web. Its main
page also has a list of lists of philosophy sites. (No philosophical tour
of the web should miss the philosophical
humour page compiled by David Chalmers.)
Bernard Suzanne has constructed a Plato
homepage with a hyptertext biography of Plato and a history of the
interpretation of his dialogues. A few academic essays about Socrates are
available online---for example, The
Socratic Elenchus as a Search for Truth, by Andrew N. Carpenter of
U.C.Berkeley; and a discussion of Kierkegaard’s work on Socratic
irony, by D. Anthony Storm. A contrarian view of Socrates is expressed
in Socrates had
it coming, which is on a site describing itself as "Your One-Stop Shopping
for Sedition", and as a selection of "Conservative, Libertarian, Constitutionalist,
Militia, and Patriot thought".
Unlike very many philosophers, alive and dead, it appears
that Socrates does not yet have much of a homepage to call his own. |
reasons?
- What was his attitude to religion? - Why were the Athenians sick of him?
- Is Plato's Socrates the real Socrates? - How did his views differ from
Plato's? - How come we know anything at all about him? - What was his theory
about virtue? - How far can it be defended? - Why did he say that a good
man cannot be harmed? - Was he just naive? - Why does he count as a philosopher?
- Why were many of his followers so strange? - What is his legacy?
