Why Socrates died : dispelling the myths /
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 dem...
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New York :
W. W. Norton & Company,
[2009]
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| Edition: | 1st American ed. |
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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.