Apology
by Plato
Apologia is a version of a speech in which Plato defended Socrates himself in 399 BC of "corrupting the young, believing not in the gods in which the city believed, but in the other daimony, a novel" (24b). "Apologia" here has an earlier meaning (now usually expressed with the word "apologia"), a phrase that defends a cause or the beliefs or actions of a person (from the ancient Greek ἀπολογία). An apology can be divided into three parts. 1. This is Socrates' self-defense – his retelling of the most famous parts of the text, namely the Oracle at Delphi – involving the cross-examination of Meletus. Part 2 is one sentence. Part 3 - punishment.
