Plato's trial of Athens

What can we learn about the trial of Socrates from Plato's dialogues?

Most scholars say we can learn a lot from the Apology, but not from the rest.

This book rejects this assumption and argues that Plato used several of his dialogues to turn the tables on Socrates' accusers: they blamed Socrates for something the city had done to itself.

Plato wanted to set the record straight and save his city from repeating her worst mistakes of the 5th century.

The book addresses challenging questions about the historicity of Plato's dialogues, and it traces Plato's critique of Athenian public life and polis culture from the trial in 399 up through the Laws and the Atlantis myth in the Critias and Timaeus.