Plato's Socratic Apology

Socrates had many admirers, and quite a few sought to rehabilitate his reputation after he was executed by the people of athens in three 99 b c. As i mentioned last time, xenophon also wrote a socratic apology. And these were not the only two men writing socratic literature around this time. We shouldn't leap to the conclusion, though, that the apology is therefore an accurate record of what socrates said. After all, in another dialogue, the fido, we are told that plato was sick and couldn't be present at socrates's death bed. But this didn't stop plato from telling us what was supposedly said in socrates's