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The Hemlock Cup - Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life (Paperback)
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The Hemlock Cup - Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life (Paperback)
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A riveting, lively and brilliantly researched biography of Socrates
by the author of the acclaimed bestseller Helen of Troy.
We think the way we do because Socrates thought the way he did. His
aphorism 'The unexamined life is not worth living' may have
originated twenty-five centuries ago, but it is a founding
principle of modern life. Socrates lived and contributed to a city
that nurtured key ingredients of contemporary civilisation --
democracy, liberty, science, drama, rational thought -- yet, as he
wrote nothing in his lifetime, he himself is an enigmatic figure.
The Hemlock Cup gives Socrates the biography he deserves, setting
him in the context of the Eastern Mediterranean that was his home,
and dealing with him as he himself dealt with the world. Socrates
was a soldier, a lover, a man of the people. He philosophised
neither in grand educational establishments nor the courts of kings
but in the squares and public arenas of Golden Age Athens. He lived
through an age of extraordinary materialism, in which a democratic
culture turned to the glorification of its own city; when war was
declared under the banner of democracy; and when tolerance turned
into intimidation on streets once populated by the likes of
Euripides, Sophocles and Pericles. For seventy years he was a
vigorous citizen of one of the greatest capitals on earth, but then
his beloved Athens turned on him, condemning him to death by
poison. Socrates' pursuit of personal liberty is a vibrant story
that Athens did not want us to hear, but which must be told.
Bettany Hughes has painstakingly pieced together Socrates' life,
following in his footsteps across Greece and Asia Minor, and
examining the new archaeological discoveries that shed light on his
world. In The Hemlock Cup she reveals the human heart of the man,
and relates a story that is as relevant now as it has ever been.
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