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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 Athens even as the city-state was tearing itself apart and falling into moral decline
eBook, English, 2010
Emblem, Toronto, 2010
Biography
1 online resource (xxix, 253 pages, [4] pages of plates : illustrations, maps)
9780771088636, 9780393072907, 0771088639, 0393072908
1302547828
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
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