Complex sentence: With regards to locating the "real" Socrates, the difficulty arises in that ancient sources are mostly philosophical or dramatic texts, aside from Xenophon, there are in fact no straightforward histories contemporary with Socrates that dealt with his own time and place.
Split into simpler sentences: With regards to locating the "real" Socrates, difficulty arises in that ancient sources are mostly philosophical or dramatic texts rather than straightforward histories. Aside from Xenophon, there are in fact no straightforward histories contemporary with Socrates that dealt with his own time and place.