Why read The Circle of Socrates?

Book cover of The Circle of Socrates: Readings in the First-Generation Socratics

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In addition to works by Plato and Xenophon, we know of dozens of treatises and dialogues written by followers of Socrates that are now lost. The surviving evidence for these writings constitutes an invaluable resource for our understanding of Socrates and his philosophical legacy. The Circle of Socrates presents new--sometimes…

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Why read it?

1 author picked The Circle of Socrates as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Nicholas D. Smith

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Collected in this one book are very reliable and readable translations of a prudent selection of the fragments of Socratic authors other than Plato and Xenophon, and these are compared very intelligently to what may be found on similar topics in Plato and Xenophon.

Reading these gave me, as Platonically fixated as I am, a feeling of whiplash. Will the real Socrates please stand up?

From Nicholas' list on Socrates as he is depicted by authors other than Plato.