Book Description
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 : James A. Colaiaco
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 22,93 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 : 47,21 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 : Paul Cartledge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 48,41 MB
Release : 2009-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 113948849X
Ancient Greece was a place of tremendous political experiment and innovation, and it was here too that the first serious political thinkers emerged. Using carefully selected case-studies, in this book Professor Cartledge investigates the dynamic interaction between ancient Greek political thought and practice from early historic times to the early Roman Empire. Of concern throughout are three major issues: first, the relationship of political thought and practice; second, the relevance of class and status to explaining political behaviour and thinking; third, democracy - its invention, development and expansion, and extinction, prior to its recent resuscitation and even apotheosis. In addition, monarchy in various forms and at different periods and the peculiar political structures of Sparta are treated in detail over a chronological range extending from Homer to Plutarch. The book provides an introduction to the topic for all students and non-specialists who appreciate the continued relevance of ancient Greece to political theory and practice today.
Author : David M. Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 20,34 MB
Release : 2011-03-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521757487
A series of texts in Classical Civilisation, encompassing literary, historical and philosophical subjects.
Author : I. F. Stone
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 25,81 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 : Mabel Lang
Publisher : ASCSA
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 22,58 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Agora (Athens, Greece)
ISBN :
Author : Mark H. Munn
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 26,77 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 : M. F. Burnyeat
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 27,83 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 : Armand D’Angour
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 33,56 MB
Release : 2019-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1408883902
An innovative and insightful exploration of the passionate early life of Socrates and the influences that led him to become the first and greatest of philosophers Socrates: the philosopher whose questioning gave birth to the ideas of Western thought, and whose execution marked the end of the Athenian Golden Age. Yet despite his pre-eminence among the great thinkers of history, little of his life story is known. What we know tends to begin in his middle age and end with his trial and death. Our conception of Socrates has relied upon Plato and Xenophon – men who met him when he was in his fifties and a well-known figure in war-torn Athens. There is mystery at the heart of Socrates' story: what turned the young Socrates into a philosopher? What drove him to pursue with such persistence, at the cost of social acceptance and ultimately of his life, a whole new way of thinking about the meaning of existence? In this revisionist biography, Armand D'Angour draws on neglected sources to explore the passions and motivations of young Socrates, showing how love transformed him into the philosopher he was to become. What emerges is the figure of Socrates as never previously portrayed: a heroic warrior, an athletic wrestler and dancer – and a passionate lover. Socrates in Love sheds new light on the formative journey of the philosopher, finally revealing the identity of the woman who Socrates claimed inspired him to develop ideas that have captivated thinkers for 2,500 years.
Author : Pamela Dell
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 43,26 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780756518745
Learn about the life of the famous philosopher.