From the celebrated British author and historian: a brilliant new book combining historical inquiry and storytelling elan to paint an unprecedentedly vivid portrait of Socrates and the Golden Age of classical Athens.
Drawing on the latest sources archaeological, topographical, and textual Hughes re-creates the streets where Socrates walked, to place him there, and to illuminate for us the world as he experienced it.". was a city devastated by war, but, at the same time, transformed by the burgeoning process of democracy.
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Athens in the fifth century B.
His Life spanned seventy of the busiest, most wonderful and tragic years in Athenian history.
And yet, for twenty-five centuries, he has remained an enigma: a man who left no written legacy and about whom everything we know is hearsay.
We think the way we do because Socrates thought the way he did; in his unwavering commitment to truth and in the example of his own life, he set the standard for all subsequent Western philosophy.
From the celebrated British author and historian: a brilliant new book combining historical inquiry and storytelling elan to paint an unprecedentedly vivid portrait of Socrates and the Golden Age of classical Athens
