Editing Trial of Socrates (section)

==Historical descriptions of the trial==
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The extant, primary sources about the history of the trial and execution of Socrates are: the ''[[Apology (Xenophon)|Apology of Socrates to the Jury]]'', by [[Xenophon]], a historian and philosopher; and the [[tetralogy]] of Socratic dialogues{{snd}}''[[Euthyphro]]'', the ''[[Apology (Plato)|Socratic Apology]]'', ''[[Crito]]'', and ''[[Phaedo (Plato)|Phaedo]]'', by [[Plato]], a philosopher who had been a student of [[Socrates]].

In ''The Indictment of Socrates'' (392 BC), the [[Sophism|sophist]] rhetorician [[Polycrates (sophist)|Polycrates]] (440–370) presents the prosecution speech by [[Anytus]], which condemned Socrates for his political and religious activities in [[Classical Athens|Athens]] before the year 403 BC. In presenting such a prosecution, which addressed matters external to the specific charges of moral corruption and impiety levelled by the Athenian ''[[polis]]'' against Socrates, Anytus violated the political [[amnesty]] specified in the agreement of reconciliation (403–402 BC),<ref>Waterfield, Robin. ''Why Socrates Died: Dispelling the Myths''. New York, 2009. p. 196.</ref> which granted pardon to a man for political and religious actions taken before or during the rule of the [[Thirty Tyrants]], "under which all further charges and official recriminations concerning the [reign of] terror were forbidden".<ref>Martin, Thomas R. ''Ancient Greece: From Prehistoric to Hellenistic Times''. Yale University, 2009. p. 162.</ref>

Moreover, the legal and religious particulars against Socrates that Polycrates reported in ''The Indictment of Socrates'' are addressed in the replies by Xenophon and the sophist [[Libanius|Libanius of Antioch]] (314–390).