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This book poses a radical challenge to the legend of Socrates bequeathed by Plato and echoed by scholars through the ages: that Socrates was an innocent sage convicted and sentenced to death by the democratic mob, for merely questioning the political and religious ideas of his time. This legend conceals an enigma: How could a sage who was pious and good be so closely associated with the treasonous Alcibiades, who betrayed Athens in the Peloponnesian war? How could Critias and Charmides, who laun
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- Author
- Shadia B. Drury
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan,
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9783319544427
- Category
- politics
- Subjects
- History, Religion, Philosophy
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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