Why Socrates died : dispelling the myths / Robin Waterfield.
2009
183.2 S678w 2009
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Title
Why Socrates died : dispelling the myths / Robin Waterfield.
Author
Edition
1st American ed.
ISBN
9780393065275
0393065278
0393065278
Imprint
New York : W. W. Norton & Co., 2009.
Language
English
Description
xxv, 253 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Call Number
183.2 S678w 2009
System Control No.
(OCoLC)286488239
(OCoLC)286488239
(OCoLC)286488239
Summary
Robin Waterfield presents Socrates as a deeply moral thinker whose convictions stood in stark relief to those of his former disciple, Alcibiades, the hawkish and self-serving military leader. Refusing to surrender his beliefs even in the face of death, Socrates was determined to save his native Athens even as the city-state was tearing itself apart and falling into moral decline.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-245) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
The trial of Socrates
Socrates in court
How the system worked
The charge of impiety
The war years
Alcibiades, Socrates, and the aristocratic milieu
Pestilence and war
The rise and fall of Alcibiades
The end of the war
Critias and Civil War
- Crisis and conflict
Symptoms of change
Reactions to intellectuals
The condemnation of Socrates
Socratic politics
A cock for Asclepius.
Socrates in court
How the system worked
The charge of impiety
The war years
Alcibiades, Socrates, and the aristocratic milieu
Pestilence and war
The rise and fall of Alcibiades
The end of the war
Critias and Civil War
- Crisis and conflict
Symptoms of change
Reactions to intellectuals
The condemnation of Socrates
Socratic politics
A cock for Asclepius.
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