Analysis Of Plato's Apology Of Socrates
In 399 B.C, Socrates, a 70 year old teacher of rhetoric and speech, had been declared the wisest by the oracle at Delphi, however, he hadn’t considered himself the wisest. He figured that someone else was wiser than himself so he began to talk to poets, artist, educators and he realized that when they claimed that they knew the answers that didn’t. He had been the only one that had acceptably admitted that he didn’t know the right answer. People were infuriated because he had pointed out that the politician hadn’t actually known about politics or that the poet wrote about myths and believed them to be true, so they brought him to court and charged him for corrupting the youth with ideas that the Greeks considered a lie. Socrates defended himself from accusations of impiety and corrupting the youth through the use of Metaphors, Allusion, Logical Reasoning and Correction of Erroneous View.
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He stated, “For you yourselves also used to see these things in the comedy of Aristophanes: a certain Socrates was carried around there, claiming that he was treading on air and spouting much other drivel about which I have no expertise, either much or little.” Aristophanes was a comic play writer, and in this example of Allusions, Socrates compared the whole situation to one of Aristophanes plays to poke fun at the judges and the audience members. He showed that he didn’t take the whole thing as seriously as his accusers but made his case to humor
He stated, “For you yourselves also used to see these things in the comedy of Aristophanes: a certain Socrates was carried around there, claiming that he was treading on air and spouting much other drivel about which I have no expertise, either much or little.” Aristophanes was a comic play writer, and in this example of Allusions, Socrates compared the whole situation to one of Aristophanes plays to poke fun at the judges and the audience members. He showed that he didn’t take the whole thing as seriously as his accusers but made his case to humor