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The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search ... by Hughes, Bettany Hardback
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- Start : Tue 27 Dec 2022 12:55:08 (BST)
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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. Socrates lived and contributed to a city that nurtured key
ingredients of contemporary civilisation democracy, liberty, science,
drama, rational thought yet, as he wrote nothing in his lifetime, he
himself is an enigmatic figure. The Hemlock Cup gives Socrates the
biography he deserves, setting him in the context of the Eastern
Mediterranean that was his home, and dealing with him as he himself
dealt with the world. Socrates was a soldier, a lover, a man of the
people. He philosophised neither in grand educational establishments nor
the courts of kings but in the squares and public arenas of Golden Age
Athens. He lived through an age of extraordinary materialism, in which a
democratic culture turned to the glorification of its own city; when
war was declared under the banner of democracy; and when tolerance
turned into intimidation on streets once populated by the likes of
Euripides, Sophocles and Pericles. For seventy years he was a vigorous
citizen....
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| Listing Type | Gallery Listing |
| Listing ID# | 215014807 |
| Start Time | Tue 27 Dec 2022 12:55:08 (BST) |
| Close Time | Run Until Sold |
| Starting Bid | Fixed Price (no bidding) |
| Item Condition | New |
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| Dispatch Time | 4 Days |
| Quantity | 1 |
| Location | United Kingdom |
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