Stone, I. F. The Trial of Socrates (Boston and Toronto 1988): a lively and provocative book, by a man
who was neither classicist nor philosopher, which takes seriously the political background and which
illustrates the passions that the figure of Socrates can still arouse.

Suggested Internet Resources

The web-site of London’s National Theatre offers a number of videos that serve as introductions to Greek
theater (nationaltheatre.org.uk/backstage/greek-theatre, accessed March 29, 2016), presented by experts
in both Classics and dramatic performance.

Zoe Caldwell’s engrossing performance as Medea (with Judith Anderson, formerly an accomplished
Medea herself, as the Nurse) is preserved on film in Robinson Jeffers’ adaptation of Euripides’ play
(youtu.be/OdtDeZZ4RPk, accessed March 29, 2016).

The archive of Stanford Classics in Theater (scit.stanford.edu/Site/archive, accessed March 29, 2016)
contains links to videos of lively, updated productions of plays of Aristophanes, and of Euripides’ satyr
play Cyclops, performed at Stanford University.

The article on Socrates (iep.utm.edu/socrates, accessed March 29, 2016) in the Internet Encyclopedia of
Philosophy is especially informative about “the Socratic problem” and about the influence Socrates has
had on the course of Western philosophy from his own day until the twentieth century.

The on-line Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy has excellent entries on Socrates
(plato.stanford.edu/entries/socrates) and the sophists (plato.stanford.edu/entries/sophists, accessed March
29, 2016) with full, up-to-date bibliographies and further resources.