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Explore 24 books like Socrates’ Defence by Plato — a handpicked selection united by Speeches, Greece, History & Surveys, and Ancient & Classical.

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An Archaeology of Disbelief

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Philodemus

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Phaedrus

Plato

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Early Greek Philosophy

Various

Themes: Greece • History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical

The Iliad and the Odyssey The Trojan War: Tragedy and Aftermath

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Conversations of Socrates

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Themes: Greece • History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical

On the Heavens

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Themes: Greece • History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical

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The Histories

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Themes: Greece • History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical

#11

Archilochus The Poems : Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary

Laura Swift

Themes: Greece • History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical

#12

Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture: III. The Conflict of Cultural Ideals in the Age of Plato

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Themes: Greece • History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical

#13

Three More Plays by Aristophanes Staging Politics

Aristophanes

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#14

The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Comedy

Michael Fontaine

Themes: Greece • History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical

#15

The Greek Origin Of The Apostles’ Creed Illustrated By Ancient Documents And Recent Research (1885)

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Themes: Greece • History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical

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Anaximander and the Origins of Greek Cosmology

Charles H. Kahn

Themes: Greece • History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical

#17

Frontiers of Pleasure Models of Aesthetic Response in Archaic and Classical Greek Thought

Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi

Themes: Greece • History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical

#18

On the Soul And Other Psychological Works

Aristotle

Themes: Greece • History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical

#19

The Greek Sophists

John Dillon

Themes: Greece • History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical

#20

Rhetoric and Irony Western Literacy and Western Lies

C. Jan Swearingen

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Ancient

#21

How to Be a Leader An Ancient Guide to Wise Leadership

Plutarch

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Ancient

#22

Meditations

Marcus Aurelius

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Ancient

#23

Clearchus of Soli Text, Translation, and Discussion

Robert Mayhew

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Ancient

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How To Stop A Conspiracy

Sallust

Themes: History & Surveys • Ancient & Classical • Ancient

If Socrates’ Defence by Plato is on your shelf, these 24 titles belong there too. Connected by Speeches, Greece, History & Surveys and selected for literary and thematic overlap. Featuring work by Sophie Marianne Bocksberger, Ifigeneia Giannadaki, Edward Jayne, Philodemus, and others.