Apology (disambiguation)

Apology , apologetic (from ancient Greek ἀπολογία apología "defense, justification") or defense speech stands for:

• the systematic defense and justification of a doctrine, see Apologetics

Apologie or Apologia is the title of the following writings:

• Apology (Plato) , Ἀπολογία Σωκράτους Apología Sōkrátous , version of Socrates' defense speech (around 380 BC)
• Apologie (Xenophon) , hypothetical defense speech of Socrates (4th century BC)
• Apologia (Apuleius) , popular title of the defense speech Pro se de magia des Apuleius (around 159)
• Apology of the Confessio Augustana by Philipp Melanchthon (1531; very often referred to simply as the Apology )

See also:

• Apologist (defense counsel, author of a defense speech or writing)
• Apologism (rhetorical figure)

Wiktionary: Apology  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

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