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Why Socrates died : dispelling the myths / Robin Waterfield.

by Waterfield, Robin, 1952-

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New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2009.

Socrates -- Trials, litigation, etc.

Socrates -- Death and burial.

9780393065275 (hardcover) :

0393065278 (hardcover)

xxv, 253 p., [4] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

1st American ed.

The trial of Socrates -- Socrates in court -- How the system worked -- The charge of impiety -- The war years -- Alcibiades, Socrates and the aristocratic milieu -- Pestilence and war -- The rise and fall of Alcibiades -- The end of the war -- Critias and civil war --- Crisis and conflict -- Symptoms of change -- Reactions to intellectuals -- The condemnation of Socrates -- Socratic politics -- A cock for Asclepius.

Robin Waterfield presents Socrates as 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 was determined to save his native Athens even as the city-state was tearing itself apart and falling into moral decline.

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