Plato, Apology of Socrates.    Dramatic date & place: court in Athens, 399 BCE. Composed: ca 390 BCE.
section number
17-18a:        manner of speaking & matter at issue.
18a-19a:        first accusers & present accusers
19b-24b:        account of the first accusers & how he made enemies by questioning Athenians at three levels:
                21:    oracle from Delphi, replied "that no one was wiser."
                21b-22d: attempt to refute the oracle by way of  "journeyings as if they were labors" [22a, cf. Odysseus, Hercules]
                        (1) interrogates "one of our public men" [sc. Pericles]
                        (2) finds that "poets do not compose...with knowledge, but by inborn talent and by inspiration."
                        (3) "Finally...craftsmen...same fault as the poets: each of them, because of his success at his craft thought
                                himself very wise in other most important pursuits."
24b-28b:    confutes present accusers
28b-d:        Socrates compared to Achilles: heroic willingness to die for what considers right (cf. Antigone)