The hemlock cup : Socrates, Athens, and the search for the good life
Hughes, Bettany
The hemlock cup : Socrates, Athens, and the search for the good life / Bettany Hughes - London : Jonathan Cape , 2010. - xxxv, 486 p. : col. ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 438-472) and index.
Hughes's (visiting research fellow, King's Coll., London; Helen of Troy) book isn't a biography of Socrates or a critique of his philosophy, but instead a look at what it was like to live in Athens during his lifetime. She uses the writings of Xenophon, Plato, and Aristophanes along with archaeological and historical discoveries to create a glimpse of the political and cultural life of Socrates' Athens. Socrates' life and philosophy are analyzed by looking at the lives of fellow Athenians such as Alcibiades and Diotima and at events he would have experienced as an adolescent in the gymnasium and as a soldier on the battlefield. His trial and death are covered at the beginning and end of the work, and Hughes examines, in detail, why Socrates' ideas were seen as so threatening for the younger citizens of Athens.
9781400076017
2010670911
Socrates
Philosophers, Greek
Philosophers----Biography
Athens (Greece)----Biography
B316 / .H84 2010
183.2 HUG
The hemlock cup : Socrates, Athens, and the search for the good life / Bettany Hughes - London : Jonathan Cape , 2010. - xxxv, 486 p. : col. ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 438-472) and index.
Hughes's (visiting research fellow, King's Coll., London; Helen of Troy) book isn't a biography of Socrates or a critique of his philosophy, but instead a look at what it was like to live in Athens during his lifetime. She uses the writings of Xenophon, Plato, and Aristophanes along with archaeological and historical discoveries to create a glimpse of the political and cultural life of Socrates' Athens. Socrates' life and philosophy are analyzed by looking at the lives of fellow Athenians such as Alcibiades and Diotima and at events he would have experienced as an adolescent in the gymnasium and as a soldier on the battlefield. His trial and death are covered at the beginning and end of the work, and Hughes examines, in detail, why Socrates' ideas were seen as so threatening for the younger citizens of Athens.
9781400076017
2010670911
Socrates
Philosophers, Greek
Philosophers----Biography
Athens (Greece)----Biography
B316 / .H84 2010
183.2 HUG
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