Author : James A. Colaiaco
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 41,15 MB
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1135024936
As an essential companion to Plato's Apology and Crito, Socrates Against Athens provides valuable historical and cultural context to our understanding of the trial.
Author : Wm. Blake Tyrrell
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 22,77 MB
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1609173384
When Athenians suffered the shame of having lost a war from their own greed and foolishness, around 404 BCE the public’s blame was directed at Socrates, a man whose unique appearance and behavior, as well as his disapproval of the democracy, made him a ready target. Socrates was subsequently put on trial and sentenced to death. However, as René Girard has pointed out, no individual can be held responsible for a communal crisis. Plato’s Apology depicts Socrates as both the bane and the cure of Greek society, while his Crito shows a sacrificial Socrates, what some might consider a pharmakos figure, the human drug through whom Plato can dispense his philosophical remedies. With tremendous insight and satisfying complexity, this book analyzes classical texts through the lens of Girard’s mimetic mechanism.
Author : M. F. Burnyeat
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 44,27 MB
Release : 2012-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0521750725
The first of two volumes collecting the published work of one of the greatest living ancient philosophers, M.F. Burnyeat.
Author : I. F. Stone
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 27,67 MB
Release : 1989-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0385260326
In unraveling the long-hidden issues of the most famous free speech case of all time, noted author I.F. Stone ranges far and wide over Roman as well as Greek history to present an engaging and rewarding introduction to classical antiquity and its relevance to society today. The New York Times called this national best-seller an "intellectual thriller."
Author : Plato Plato
Publisher : Xist Publishing
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 19,47 MB
Release : 2016-03-17
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1681956942
Plato's Guide to the Good Life “The unexamined life is not worth living” -Apology, Plato An original account of the speech Socrates makes at the trial in which he is charged with not recognizing the gods recognized by the state, inventing new deities, and corrupting the youth of Athens. This Xist Classics edition has been professionally formatted for e-readers with a linked table of contents. This eBook also contains a bonus book club leadership guide and discussion questions. We hope you’ll share this book with your friends, neighbors and colleagues and can’t wait to hear what you have to say about it. Xist Publishing is a digital-first publisher. Xist Publishing creates books for the touchscreen generation and is dedicated to helping everyone develop a lifetime love of reading, no matter what form it takes
Author : David M. Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 42,8 MB
Release : 2011-03-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521757487
A series of texts in Classical Civilisation, encompassing literary, historical and philosophical subjects.
Author : Mark H. Munn
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 41,50 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0520236858
In this substantial volume Munn examines Athens during the period between 510 and 395 BC, in which period the city rose and fell and the likes of Thucydides, Socrates, Herodotus, Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes lived.
Author : Robin Waterfield
Publisher : Emblem Editions
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,51 MB
Release : 2010-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0771088639
A revisionist account of the most famous trial and execution in Western civilization — one with great resonance for modern society In the spring of 399 BCE, the elderly philosopher Socrates stood trial in his native Athens. The court was packed, and after being found guilty by his peers, Socrates died by drinking a cup of poison hemlock, his execution a defining moment in ancient civilization. Yet time has transmuted the facts into a fable. Aware of these myths, Robin Waterfield has examined the actual Greek sources, presenting a new Socrates, not an atheist or guru of a weird sect, but a deeply moral thinker, whose convictions stood in stark relief to those of his former disciple, Alcibiades, the hawkish and self-serving military leader. Refusing to surrender his beliefs even in the face of death, Socrates, as Waterfield reveals, was determined to save a morally decayed country that was tearing itself apart. Why Socrates Died is then not only a powerful revisionist book, but a work whose insights translate clearly from ancient Athens to the present day.
Author : Noreen Humble
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,13 MB
Release : 2023-03-30
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781108810470
Xenophon of Athens (c. 430-354 BCE) has long been considered an uncritical admirer of Sparta who hero-worships the Spartan King Agesilaus and eulogises Spartan practices in his Lacedaimoniôn Politeia. By examining his own self-descriptions - especially where he portrays himself as conversing with Socrates and falling short in his appreciation of Socrates' advice - this book finds in Xenophon's overall writing project a Socratic response to his exile and situates his writings about Sparta within this framework. It presents a detailed reading of the Lacedaimoniôn Politeia as a critical and philosophical examination of Spartan socio-cultural practices. Evidence from his own Hellenica, Anabasis and Agesilaus is shown to confirm Xenophon's analysis of the weaknesses in the Spartan system, and that he is not enamoured of Agesilaus. Finally, a comparison with contemporary Athenian responses to Sparta, shows remarkable points of convergence with his fellow Socratic Plato, as well as connections with Isocrates too.
Author : Mabel Lang
Publisher : ASCSA
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 10,81 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Agora (Athens, Greece)
ISBN :
