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The principal event in the Apology of Socrates to the Jury is Socrates’s rejection of an attack upon his character by Anytus. In 399 BC, Xenophon was serving with the Greek mercenary army of the Ten Thousand (cf. Anabasis), so he was not actually in Athens for the trial of Socrates.
The Menexenus (/ məˈnɛksənəs /; Greek: Μενέξενος) is a Socratic dialogue of Plato, traditionally included in the seventh tetralogy along with the Greater and Lesser Hippias and the Ion. The speakers are Socrates and Menexenus, who is not to be confused with Socrates' son Menexenus.
The Apology or Platonic defence of Socrates is divided into three parts: 1st. The defence properly so called; 2nd. The shorter address in mitigation of the penalty; 3rd. The last words of prophetic rebuke and exhortation.
For there is a legend that, as Lycurgus entered the temple, the god thus addressed him: ‘I am pondering whether to call you god or man.’. Now Apollo did not compare me to a god; he did, however, judge that I far excelled the rest of mankind.
The difficulty of understanding Plato’s motive and purpose in the Menexenus lies in the apparent contrast between the bantering and satirical tone of the opening dialogue, in which Socrates disparages the orators and makes light of their art, and the patriotic and moral sentiments which are expressed with every appearance of good faith in the ...
Plato's The Apology is an account of the speech Socrates makes at the trial in which he is charged with not recognizing the gods recognized by the state, inventing new deities, and corrupting the youth of Athens. Socrates' speech, however, is by no means an "apology" in our modern understanding of the word.
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Menexenus and referring to a recent meeting with Aspasia, Plato's readers would at first assume that the interlocutor was Menexenus the cousin of Lysis, and that the meeting was to be imagined as taking place only a few years after the conversation
