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From the celebrated British author and historian: a dazzling new book in which she combines historical inquiry and storytelling élan to give us a brilliantly vivid portrait of Socrates and of the Golden Age of Athens. Socrates' life spanned "seventy of the busiest, most wonderful and tragic years in Athenian history," and Bettany Hughes re-creates this fifth-century B.C. city, drawing on the latest sources--archaeological, topographical, and textual--to illuminate the streets where Socrates walked, to place him there, to show us his life as he lived and experienced it. She takes us through the teeming Agora where Socrates often spoke, and where he was condemned to death. We visit the red-light district, the gymnasia, the shrines he frequented, and the battlefields where he fought. We meet the men, and the few women, who were central to his life. And we come to see the profound influences of time and place in the evolution of his eternally provocative... From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. The brilliant cultural historian Hughes (Helen of Troy) has again produced an intriguing and entertaining biohistory of one of the most important individuals in the ancient world, and of the A

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Author

Hughes, Bettany

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781400041794

Category

history

Subjects

Historical Fiction, Fiction, Memoir

Rating

3.91 / 5 (485 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14