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 | #1154981 in Books |  Alfred A Knopf |  2011-02-08 |  2011-02-08 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Format: Deckle Edge | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.54 x1.70 x6.72l,2.05 | File type: PDF | 528 pages

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||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| A Fresh Look At Socrates|By Norman A. Pattis|The trial and death of Socrates stands alongside that of Jesus of Nazareth as a milestone in our civilization. What these deaths signify is far from clear. Neither man wrote memoirs about what he taught. Both were killed by political authorities intent on doing what politicians always do - keeping order. And both deaths have spawned|From Publishers Weekly|Starred . The brilliant cultural historian Hughes (Helen of Troy) has again produced an intriguing and entertaining biohistory of one of the most important individuals in the ancient world, and of the Athenian society that condemned him t

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. 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, gleaned from the writings of Plato, Xenophon and Aristophanes. Now Bettany Hughes gives us an unprecedented, brilliantly vivid portrait ...

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