Why Socrates died : dispelling the myths /
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 Athe...
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New York :
W. W. Norton & Co.,
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.
