A Literary Look At Socrates In The Chronicle Of Higher Education

How to read Socrates?  Well, here’s one take.

I think that the interest classicists have in Socrates will always be hobbled by an important truth of classicism:  unchallenged metaphysical ideas in literature are precisely the ideas challenged in philosophy.  

Here’s another place to start, though you’re probably not going to find an ideal starting point;  which of course, might be reason enough to read and think about Socrates.