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  title info:
    title: Why Socrates died
    sub title: dispelling the myths
  name:
    name part: Waterfield, Robin
    name part: 1952-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2009
    edition: 1st American ed.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxv, 253 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
  abstract: Socrates' trial and death together form an iconic moment in Western civilization. The picture we have of it, created by his immediate followers and perpetuated in countless works of literature and art ever since, is that a noble man was put to death in a fit of folly by the ancient Athenian democracy. But an icon, an image, is not reality. The trial was, in part, a response to troubled times, a catastrophic war and turbulent social changes, and so provides a good lens through which to explore the history of the period; the historical facts allow us to strip away some of the veneer that has for so long denied us glimpses of the real Socrates. Written by a scholar, but not only for scholars, this is an accessible, authoritative account of one of the defining periods of Western civilization.
  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 -- Glossary.
  note: Robin Waterfield.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Socrates
    topic: Trials, litigation, etc
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Socrates
    topic: Death and burial
  subject:
    topic: Philosophers
    geographic: Greece
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Philosophers, Ancient
    genre: Biography
  classification: B316 .W38 2009
  classification: 183/.2 B
  identifier: 9780393065275
  identifier: 0393065278
  identifier: 2009004317
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 090203
    record change date: 20151206085057.0
    record identifier: in00003404372