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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 April 2010
In The Religion of Socrates, Mark McPherran offers an extended discussion of selected evidence about Socrates's philosophy of religion. Relevant passages from Plato's Euthyphro and Apology are taken to be authentic reports of Socrates's own thinking, and are commented on at considerable length. The interpretation that emerges is supplemented by evidence from other works by Plato (treated more cautiously) and from Xenophon's Memorabilia (treated more hesitantly). The ten-page bibliography is useful, and the index of passages is especially valuable. But McPherran's evidence is tendentiously selected, and so his depiction cannot be trusted as a portrayal of Socrates himself.
1 For a decisive refutation of the concept of a “best manuscript,” see pp. 131–37 of Hermann Fraenkel's “Einleitung zur kritischen Ausgabe der Argonautika des Apollonios,” in Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Gottingen, Philologische-historische Klasse, Dritte Folge, #55 (1964); most of his arguments apply, mutatis mutandis, to source criticism.Google Scholar