The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life

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From the celebrated British writer and historian: a brilliant new book combining historical inquiry and storytelling élan to paint an unprecedentedly vivid portrait of Socrates and the Golden Age of classical Athens.
 
We think the best way we do because Socrates thought the best way he did; in his unwavering commitment to truth and within the example of his own life, he set the usual 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 the whole lot we know is hearsay. His life spanned “seventy of the busiest, most wonderful and tragic years in Athenian history.” Athens within the fifth century B.C. was once a city devastated by war, but, at the same time, transformed by the burgeoning process of democracy. Drawing at the recent sources—archaeological, topographical, and textual—Hughes re-creates the streets where Socrates walked, to place him there, and to remove darkness from for us the world as he experienced it.

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