| Edition |
First Anchor Books edition. |
| Description |
xi, 282 pages ; 21 cm |
| Note |
Originally published by Little, Brown and Company in 1988. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-267) and index. |
| Summary |
Combines classical scholarship with techniques of modern investigative journalism in an attempt to unravel the mystery behind the trial and conviction of Athens' most prominent philosopher. |
| Contents |
pt. I. Socrates and Athens. Their basic differences -- Socrates and Homer -- The clue in the Thersites story -- The nature of virtue and of knowledge -- Courage as virtue -- A wild goose chase: the Socratic search for absolute definitions -- Socrates and rhetoric -- The good life: the third Socratic divergence -- The prejudices of Socrates -- pt. II. The ordeal. Why did they wait until he was seventy? -- The three earthquakes -- Xenophon, Plato, and the three earthquakes -- The principal accuser -- How Socrates did his best to antagonize the jury -- How Socrates easily might have won acquittal -- What Socrates should have said -- The four words -- The final question -- Was there a witch-hunt in ancient Athens? |
| Subject |
Socrates.
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Socrates -- Trials, litigation, etc.
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Socrates. (OCoLC)fst00035600
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| Genre/Form |
Trials, litigation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01423712
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| ISBN |
0385260326: $9.95 ($12.95 Can.) |
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