The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life by Bettany Hughes

The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life

Bettany Hughes

486 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction biography history philosophy challenging informative slow-paced

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"We think the way we do because Socrates thought the way he did. His aphorism 'The unexamined life is not worth living' may have originated twenty-five centuries ago, but it is a founding principle of modern life. Socrates lived and contributed to...

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