The hemlock cup : Socrates, Athens, and the search for the good life
Title:
The hemlock cup : Socrates, Athens, and the search for the good life
Author:
Hughes, Bettany.
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Edition:
First U.S. edition.
Publication Information:
New York : A.A. Knopf, [2010]
©2010
Physical Description:
xxxv, 484 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
Athena's city -- Socrates as a young man -- Socrates the soldier -- New gods, new possibilities: Socrates in middle age -- The fight goes on -- Socrates and love -- Cutting down the tallest corn -- The trial and death of Socrates.
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ISBN:
9781400041794
Format :
Book
