A revisionist account of the most famous trial and execution in
Western civilization -- one with great resonance for modern society
In the spring of 399 BCE, the elderly philosopher Socrates stood
trial in his native Athens. The court was packed, and after being
found guilty by his peers, Socrates died by drinking a cup of
poison hemlock, his execution a defining moment in ancient
civilization. Yet time has transmuted the facts into a fable. Aware
of these myths, Robin Waterfield has examined the actual Greek
sources, presenting a new Socrates, not an atheist or guru of a
weird sect, but 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, as Waterfield reveals,
was determined to save a morally decayed country that was tearing
itself apart. Why Socrates Died is then not only a powerful
revisionist book, but a work whose insights translate clearly from
ancient Athens to the present day.
"From the Hardcover edition."
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