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020			_a9781400076017
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050	0	0	_aB316 _b.H84 2010
082	0	0	_a183.2 HUG
100	1		_aHughes, Bettany
245	1	4	_aThe hemlock cup _b: Socrates, Athens, and the search for the good life _c/ Bettany Hughes
260			_aLondon _b: Jonathan Cape _c, 2010.
300			_axxxv, 486 p. _b: col. ill., maps _c; 25 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 438-472) and index.
520			_aHughes'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.
600	0	0	_aSocrates
650		4	_aPhilosophers, Greek
650		0	_aPhilosophers _x--Biography
651		0	_aAthens (Greece) _v--Biography
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