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Chargement... The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life (édition 2011)par Bettany Hughes (Auteur)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Review: The Hemlock Cup by Bettany Hughes. This book was time consuming but I’m glad I took the time to read it to the very last page. I read it in sections between other books. The writing was excellent and I could tell a lot of research went into this book. The book doesn’t just present the facts; it gives a full historical context of Socrates’ life, trial and execution. The events did jump around a bit but I found it easy to place most of the major events chronologically in my mind so I had no problem keeping up with the writer. Plus, with all the history noted it was like taking a stroll through Athens over the years and found myself locked into that timeframe and it felt like I was there. The author did a wonderful job embracing the subject for homoerotic situations throughout the book. Bettany Hughes also creatively weaves knowledge throughout the book on different subject matters as; archaeology, Greek drama, comedies, geography, data from Plato’s books and descriptive details of Athens, the sights, the smells, the strange religious rituals and the people. She is an exceptional writer of resources, educational standards that held my interest and I enjoyed every last word. Socrates was born around 469 B.C. and matured into a marketplace philosopher talking about the founding of philosophy which later got him into trouble and cost him his life. Another one of his roles was becoming a soldier. He fought in the Peloponnesian War during his thirties and well into his forties. Sparta (a City in Greece) was their enemy. They were only a three day walk from Athens which kept the military endeavors high on alert and they were a constant worry during Socrates’ life. It might be an ostensibly biography of Socrates’ however; I thought it was a book about Athens 400-500 B.C. looking through the eyes of Socrates’ and his contemporaries to the world’s first democracy in Athens falling into a harsh domination of power that was ultimately damaged by its pride. By what I read, Athens was powerful, creatively built and left us with all types of basic philosophy concepts such as truth, existence, reality, causality, and freedom….
There can't be, from my point of view, too many books about Socrates, so I am not complaining at the appearance of this one. It is less than 18 months, however, since I reviewed in these pages an excellent book by Robin Waterfield, Why Socrates Died, on very much this topic. To be fair to Bettany Hughes, though, she was at work on her equally fine version of the theme for at least 10 years, long before Waterfield’s book appeared. Prix et récompenses
In his unwavering commitment to truth and in the example of his own life, Socrates set the standard for all subsequent Western philosophy. And yet, for twenty-five centuries, he has remained an enigma: a man who left no written legacy and about whom everything we know is hearsay, gleaned from the writings of Plato, Xenophon and Aristophanes. Now the author, a historian gives us a vivid portrait of Socrates and of his homeland, Athens in its Golden Age. His life spanned "seventy of the busiest, most wonderful and tragic years in Athenian history." It was a city devastated by war, but, at the same time, transformed by the burgeoning process of democracy. The author re-creates this fifth-century B.C. city, drawing on the latest sources to illuminate the streets where Socrates walked, to place him there and to show us the world as he experienced it. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)183.2Philosophy and Psychology Ancient, medieval and eastern philosophy Sophistic and Socratic SocratesClassification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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is an amazing book. Examining the Athens
of Socrates, she develops a sharper picture
of the gadfly philosopher and his times.
If you get a chance read her first book on
"Helen of Troy". ( )