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The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life
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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. For seventy years Socrates was a vigorous citizen of Golden Age Athens, philosophising in the squares and public arenas rather than in the courts of kings, before his beloved city turned on him, condemning him to death by poison.Socrates lived in and contributed to a city that nurtured key ingredients of contemporary civilisation – democracy, liberty, science, drama, rational thought – yet, as he wrote almost nothing down, he himself is an enigmatic figure. In The Hemlock Cup, acclaimed historian Bettany Hughes gives Socrates the biography he deserves, painstakingly piecing together Socrates’ life and using fresh evidence to get closer to the man who asked ‘how should we live?’ – a question as relevant now as it has ever been.
Additional information
| Weight | 0.459 kg |
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| Dimensions | 3.6 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm |
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| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 544 |
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| Year Published | 2011-9-1 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 0099554054 |
| About The Author | Bettany Hughes is a historian, author and broadcaster who has devoted much of the last twenty years to the vibrant communication of the past. Her first book, Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore was published to great critical acclaim and has now been translated into ten languages. Bettany has made a number of factual films for the BBC, Channel 4, PBS, Discovery, The History Channel and ABC for both the British and International markets including The Spartans, When The Moors Ruled in Europe, Athens:The Truth of Democracy, The Women of the Bible and Helen of Troy. These have now been seen by over 100 million worldwide. |
Hughes cleverly extracts the man from the dramatic scene-setting… This intelligent, bright-eyed vigorous book [has] a life as vibrant and provocative as that lived by its subject |
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| Other text | In The Hemlock Cup Bettany Hughes does a very good job of recreating the material world in which Socrates lived…she is up to date on recent archaeological discoveries… She writes frankly of the nastiness of the world in which Socrates grew up and lived |
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