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The hemlock cup : Socrates, Athens and the search for the good life / Bettany Hughes.
| Author/creator | Hughes, Bettany |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | 1st U.S. ed. |
| Publication Info | New York : A.A. Knopf, 2011. |
| Description | xxxv, 484 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Athena's city -- Socrates as a young man -- Socrates the soldier -- New gods, new possibilities: Socrates in middle age -- The fight goes on -- Socrates and love -- Cutting down the tallest corn -- The trial and death of Socrates. |
| Abstract | In his unwavering commitment to truth and in the example of his own life, Socrates set the standard for all subsequent Western philosophy. And yet, for twenty-five centuries, he has remained an enigma: a man who left no written legacy and about whom everything we know is hearsay, gleaned from the writings of Plato, Xenophon and Aristophanes. Now historian Bettany Hughes gives us a vivid portrait of Socrates and of his homeland, Athens in its Golden Age. His life spanned "seventy of the busiest, most wonderful and tragic years in Athenian history." It was a city devastated by war, but, at the same time, transformed by the burgeoning process of democracy, and Hughes re-creates this fifth-century B.C. city, drawing on the latest sources to illuminate the streets where Socrates walked, to place him there and to show us the world as he experienced it.--From publisher description. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 438-472) and index. |
| LCCN | 2010045486 |
| ISBN | 1400041791 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9781400041794 (alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | B316 .H84 2011 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |