Why Socrates died dispelling the myths

• Main Author: Waterfield, Robin 1952- (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: London Faber and Faber c2009
• Subjects: Σωκράτης, > 469 π.Χ.-399 π.Χ. > Θάνατος και ταφή; Σωκράτης, > 469 π.Χ.-399 π.Χ. > Δίκη, αμφισβήτηση, κλπ.

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...

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.