The trial of Socrates / I.F. Stone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stone, I. F. (Isidor Feinstein), 1907-1989.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Socrates.

Socrates--Trials, litigation, etc.

Genre:

Trials, litigation, etc.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xi, 282 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Anchor Books edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Anchor Books, 1989.

Summary:

Combines classical scholarship with techniques of modern investigative journalism in an attempt to unravel the mystery behind the trial and conviction of Athens' most prominent philosopher.

Contents:

pt. I. Socrates and Athens. Their basic differences

Socrates and Homer

The clue in the Thersites story

The nature of virtue and of knowledge

Courage as virtue

A wild goose chase: the Socratic search for absolute definitions

Socrates and rhetoric

The good life: the third Socratic divergence

The prejudices of Socrates

pt. II. 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

Was there a witch-hunt in ancient Athens?

Notes:

Originally published by Little, Brown and Company in 1988.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-267) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Stone, I.F. (Isidor Feinstein), 1907-1989. Trial of Socrates.

ISBN:

0385260326

9780385260329

OCLC:

18560713

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