📚 Socrates

The man who wrote nothing and started everything: tried through Plato, Xenophon and the trial record.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject socrates in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Συμπόσιον	Plato	1559	351
	Φαῖδρος	Plato	1792	138
	The master key system in twenty-four parts with questionnaire and glossary	Charles F. Haanel	1919	135
	Memorabilia	Xenophon	1650	102
	Socrates	A. E. Taylor	1932	16
	Om begrebet ironi	Søren Kierkegaard	1841	13
	Before and after Socrates	Francis MacDonald Cornford	1932	11
	Being and logos	John Sallis	1975	10
	Socrates and the Socratic schools	Eduard Zeller	1868	9
	A Guided Tour of Five Works by Plato	Πλάτων	1988	9
	Memorable Thoughts of Socrates	Xenophon	2014	7
	Socrates	Sarah Kofman	1989	6
	Socratic Moral Psychology	Thomas C. Brickhouse	2010	6
	Ironic Defense of Socrates	David M. Leibowitz	2010	6
	Socrates' Daimonic Art	Elizabeth S. Belfiore	2012	6
	Four Texts on Socrates	Πλάτων	1984	5
	The trial of Socrates	I. F. Stone	1988	5
	Six Questions of Socrates	Christopher Phillips	2004	5
	Socrates and Philosophy in the Dialogues of Plato	Sandra Peterson	2011	5
	Teach Like Socrates	Erick Wilberding	2014	5
	The trial of Socrates	I. F. Stone	1988	4
	Socrates	William J. Prior	1996	4
	Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Plato and the Trial of Socrates	Thomas C. Brickhouse	2004	4
	Socrates	Jun Lim	2006	4
	Socrates	George Rudebusch	2009	4
	The hemlock cup	Bettany Hughes	2011	4
	The Bloomsbury companion to Socrates	John Bussanich	2012	4
	Socrate	André-Jean Festugière	1934	3
	Socrate et la conscience de l'homme	Micheline Sauvage	1956	3
	Socratic studies	Gregory Vlastos	1994	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 05 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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