The Apology takes place in the Court of Athens, the most public of settings, while the Crito occurs within the darkness and confinement of a prison cell.
"I've received threats from inmates telling me they will burn me alive because they see me as a symbol of the system that put them in prison, " said Afiuni, 46, in her prisoncell.
The former prime minister says prison guards beat her as she was being transferred from her prisoncell to a hospital to be treated for debilitating back pain.