The "Apology of Socrates to the Jury" is Xenophon’s literary contribution to the many apologia written to explain the trial of Socrates (399 BC) to the Athenian public. Each book was its author’s perceptions and interpretations of the guilty verdict against the public figure Socrates. The author Xenophon presents Socrates’s "megalēgoria" (boastful manner of speaking) at his trial as a tactic in his legal defense against the charges of corruption, impiety, and harming the Athenian state. The principal event in the "Apology of Socrates to the Jury" is Socrates’s rejection of an attack upon his character by Anytus.