Record details

• ISBN: 0316817589
• ISBN: 9780316817585
• Physical Description: xi, 282 pages ; 24 cm.
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Publisher: Boston : Little, Brown, c1988.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes index.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Bibliography: p. [249]-267.

Formatted Contents Note:

Preface: How this book came to be written. -- Socrates and Athens. Their basic differences ; Socrates and Homer ; The clue on the Thersites story ; The nature of virtue and of knowledge ; Courage as virtue ; A wild goose chase: the Socratic search for absolute divergence ; Socrates and rhetoric ; The good life: the third Socratic divergence ; The prejudices of Socrates. -- The ordeal. Why did they wait until he was seventy? ; The three earthquakes ; Xenophon, Plato, and the three earthquakes ; The principal accuser ; How Socrates did his best to antagonize the jury ; How Socrates easily might have won acquittal ; What Socrates should have said ; The four words ; The final question. -- Epilogue: Was there a witch-hunt in ancient Athens?

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