Why Socrates died: dispelling the myths
Robin Waterfield
- Resource Type:
- Book (Print/Paper)
- Edition:
- 1st American ed.
- Publication:
- New York : W. W. Norton & Co., 2009
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- 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.
- Table of Contents:
- 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.
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- Languages:
- English
- Language Notes:
- Item content: English
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- General Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-245) and index.
- Physical Description:
- xxv, 253 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Call Numbers:
- B316 .W38 2009
- ISBNs:
- 9780393065275
0393065278 - Library of Congress Control Numbers:
- 2009004317
- OCLC Numbers:
- 286488239