Why Socrates died : dispelling the myths / Robin Waterfield.
| Author/creator | Waterfield, Robin, 1952- |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | 1st American ed. |
| Publication Info | New York : W. W. Norton & Co., 2009. |
| Description | xxv, 253 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| 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. |
| Abstract | 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 note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-245) and index. |
| LCCN | 2009004317 |
| ISBN | 9780393065275 |
| ISBN | 0393065278 |