Socrates introduced his first topic by his first sentence, “I do not know,” . Socrates was the wisest man in ancient Greece at that time. “He asked if any man was wiser than I, and the Pythian replied that no one was wiser…” The wisest man started his dialogue with “I do not know.” Socrates wants to emphases the ignorance of human race which he mentioned several times in Apology. “What is probable, gentlemen, is that in fact the god is wise and that his oracular response meant that human wisdom is worth little or nothing…...” By the first sentence, Socrates brings out his first theme in Apology: the ignorance of people. In another way of understanding, although he is already the most wisdom man in the world, he still prefers to begin his sentences with “I do not know” to emphases that there is a much broader and larger world of knowledge for man-kind to explore. …show more content…
“Men of Athens,” Socrates refers the jury men as men of Athens instead of juries. “Jurymen—you I would rightly call jurymen…” He only recognizes the juries who voted him acquittal are true jury men. “How my accusers affected you” Socrates did not blame the juries for misunderstanding his behaviors or giving him a penalty. The only thing he could do is to explain the truth to the jury men for each accusation on him. The entire Apology was his words to defend himself from all the charges he faced. “As for me, I was almost carried away in spite of myself, so persuasively did they speak…And yet, hardly anything of what they said is