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Who supplies an account of Socrates' reasons for his conduct in court?
What does Socrates defend while facing a death sentence?
What is the central setting of Socrates' defense?
What does Meletus object to about young people?
Who asks Apollo about Socrates?
Who is present when Chaerephon makes his inquiry?
Whom does Socrates cite as receiving still greater divine praise?
Which place is associated with Lycurgus?
How do the judges react to Socrates' claims?
What verdict do the judges deliver?
Which response does Socrates refuse?
How do Socrates' companions try to help him?
What do Socrates' companions propose that he rejects?
How do the companions respond as Socrates accepts death?
What especially distresses Apollodorus?
Whose unjust death gives Socrates comfort?
What matters more to Socrates than survival?
What work does Anytus assign his son?
What does Socrates connect with Anytus' hostility?
What fulfills Socrates' prediction of moral decline?
What conflict of authority does Meletus' objection reveal?
What does the fate of Anytus' son suggest about parental authority?
What contrast appears between Socrates' religious confidence and the judges' response?
What does Socrates' refusal to escape show?
How does Socrates challenge Apollodorus' distress about innocence?
What does the example of Palamedes suggest about punishment?
Which setting also appears in the account of Socrates' approaching death?
What does Hermogenes' role direct attention toward?
What does the companions' grief show alongside Socrates' dignity?
Which sequence matches the account of Anytus' son?
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