The Apology

After a reading of ‘The Apology’ by Plato about Socrates trial, it was very confusing to find out what he actually tried to mean when he made his statements. I shall be quoting two such instances from the trial to prove this point. To begin with Socrates tells “For I am more than seventy years of age, and appearing now for the first time in a court of law, I am quite a stranger to the language of the place; and therefore I would have you regard me as if I were really a stranger,…” Here a question arises, why should Socrates be treated as a stranger? If it was because of the fact, his first time on trial, then in what ma...