Hemlock Cup - Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life

Informationen zum Autor Bettany Hughes Klappentext Subtitled, "Socrates, Athens & The Search For The Good Life". A lively and brilliantly researched biography of Socrates, from the author of the bestselling "Helen Of Troy". Socrates was a soldier, a lover and a man of the people, and Hughes sets him the context of the Eastern Mediterranean that was his home. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Bettany Hughes, Hughes Bettany
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.09.2011
• EAN: 9780099554059
• ISBN: 978-0-09-955405-9
• No. of pages: 544
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 33 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Ancient Greece, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge