Why Socrates Died: Dispelling the MythsMcClelland & Stewart, 4.5.2010 - 280 sivua A revisionist account of the most famous trial and execution in Western civilization — one with great resonance for modern society In the spring of 399 BCE, the elderly philosopher Socrates stood trial in his native Athens. The court was packed, and after being found guilty by his peers, Socrates died by drinking a cup of poison hemlock, his execution a defining moment in ancient civilization. Yet time has transmuted the facts into a fable. Aware of these myths, Robin Waterfield has examined the actual Greek sources, presenting a new Socrates, not an atheist or guru of a weird sect, but 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, as Waterfield reveals, was determined to save a morally decayed country that was tearing itself apart. Why Socrates Died is then not only a powerful revisionist book, but a work whose insights translate clearly from ancient Athens to the present day. |
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... became instantly identifiable by his looks and somewhat pugnacious demeanour , though this bust slightly downplays his ugliness . Known to scholars as ' Type B ' Socrates busts , they may stem from an original by Lysippus , one of the ...
... became instantly identifiable by his looks and somewhat pugnacious demeanour , though this bust slightly downplays his ugliness . Known to scholars as ' Type B ' Socrates busts , they may stem from an original by Lysippus , one of the ...
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... became exaggerated over the years , until he became an archetypal dandy , profligate and sexual omnivore , whose tyrannical political intentions could be read off from his private life . As if the dubious source material did not make ...
... became exaggerated over the years , until he became an archetypal dandy , profligate and sexual omnivore , whose tyrannical political intentions could be read off from his private life . As if the dubious source material did not make ...
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... became the superbly haughty philosopher , concerned with nothing except his mission to investigate and promote profound moral values . But this picture is a Platonic fiction and has generated the troubling result that , just as Socrates ...
... became the superbly haughty philosopher , concerned with nothing except his mission to investigate and promote profound moral values . But this picture is a Platonic fiction and has generated the troubling result that , just as Socrates ...
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... became the vehicle for Socrates ' political aspirations . We will not understand Socrates without understanding Alcibiades ; hence his prominence in this book . But they were not only opposites . Both men pushed the envelope in their ...
... became the vehicle for Socrates ' political aspirations . We will not understand Socrates without understanding Alcibiades ; hence his prominence in this book . But they were not only opposites . Both men pushed the envelope in their ...
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Socrates in Court | 3 |
How the System Worked | 20 |
The Charge of Impiety | 32 |
Alcibiades Socrates and | 51 |
Pestilence and War | 67 |
The Rise and Fall of Alcibiades | 85 |
The End of the War | 103 |
Critias and Civil War | 122 |
Symptoms of Change | 139 |
Reactions to Intellectuals | 155 |
Socratic Politics | 173 |
A Cock for Asclepius | 191 |
Glossary | 205 |
Bibliography | 227 |
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