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I happen to be writing a graphic novel about this event. Part 1 is available for free download on Amazon until tomorrow night: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07NGZQMBG

Would love to know what you think. (Though we don't get to the events of the Apology until part 3...)

I'm going to echo /u/Jake_Lukas and (strongly) recommend the Cooper edition. The translations are more up to date and reflect additional decades of scholarship; the translators have generally at least one substantial work/commentary on their respective dialogue; and you get all the pseudoplatonica.

We used the Cooper edition in all my upper-division undergraduate and graduate philosophy courses and even consulted the translations found in that edition in my classics courses when we needed to.

So for a "deep dive," I think you want to go with Cooper's Complete Works over Jowett.

Debra Nails' The People of Plato isn't exactly what you're looking for, but is a must have reference for the people in the dialogues. A lot can be gleamed from knowing who they were and why Plato used them in his works. Further, there's a good section on the man himself in there.

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Lectures, Podcasts, Audiobooks and Documentaries

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• Socrates and Plato from The History of Philosophy with No Gaps by Peter Adamson, King's College (London), episodes 15-33 on iTunes audio or RSS -- comments
  
  
• Socratic Citizenship and Philosopher Kings from PLSC 114: Introduction to Political Philosophy by Stephen B. Smith, Yale University, lectures 2-6 on iTunes audio, iTunes video or YouTube
  
  
• Plato: The Republic, Statesman and the Laws from Political, Economic & Social Thought by Charles W. Anderson, University of Wisconsin, lectures 5-7 on iTunes audio --- comments
  
  
• Plato, Socrates, and the Dialogues (audio) by Michael Sugrue, from The Great Courses -- comments
  
  
• Lectures on Plato (YouTube) by Pierre Grimes. The link leads to 114 playlists. For an overview of them, check out the comments
  
  
• Lectures on Plato's Apology of Socrates (YouTube) by Allan Bloom --- comments
  
  
• Lecture Course in Plato's Republic (mp3s) by Laurence Bloom (low sound quality)
  
  
• Leo Strauss' lectures on:
  
  
• • Meno (YouTube) --- comments
    
    
• • Gorgias (mp3) --- comments
    
    
• • Protagoras (mp3) --- comments
    
    
• • Meno again (mp3) --- comments
    
    
• • Apology/Crito (mp3) --- comments
    
    
• • Euthydemus (mp3) --- comments
    
    
• • Laws (mp3) --- comments
    
    
• Chapter on Plato's Republic (mp3) from Nigel Warburton's book Philosophy: The Classics
  
  
• Plato's Cave (mp3) by Simon Blackburn, from Philosophy Bites
  
  
• Plato and Totalitarianism (mp3) by Melissa Lane, from Philosophy Bites
  
  
• Angie Hobbs on Philosophy Bites on:
  
  
• • Plato on War (mp3) --- comments
    
    
• • Plato on Love (mp3) --- comments
    
    
• • Why you should vote for Plato (ram)
    
    
• • Socrates (audio) with Melvyn Bragg, David Sedley and Paul Millett --- comments
    
    
• Bryan Magee talks to Miles Burnyeat about Plato (YouTube) from BBC --- comments
  
  
• Partially Examined Life discusses Plato's Republic: What is Justice (podcast/mp3) (3 minutes in) --- comments
  
  
• The Life of Socrates, audio in 4 parts (YouTube)
  
  
• Plato's Audiobooks from LibriVox --- comments
  
  
• more Plato's Audiobooks from Learn Out Loud

For a beginner, it's hard to beat the Hacket "Five Dialogues" (Euthyphro, Meno, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo). This will give you a fair taste of the early dialogues. You can follow up with Republic, Parmenides, Theatetus, Sophist, and Statesman.

If you find yourself wanting to dig deeper, I'd suggest the Focus Philosophical Library series for many dialogues.