[PDF] Socrates In The Athenian Agora eBook

Author : Jun Lim
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 50,79 MB
Release : 2006-01-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781404205642

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Biography of Greek philosopher and teacher Socrates describing his lasting influence on human understanding.

Author : David M. Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 16,71 MB
Release : 2011-03-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521757487

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A series of texts in Classical Civilisation, encompassing literary, historical and philosophical subjects.

Author : Alex Gottesman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 10,89 MB
Release : 2014-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1107041686

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This book examines 'informal' politics, such as gossip and political theatrics, and how they related to more 'formal' politics of assembly and courts.

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Publisher : Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 19,88 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9780865164987

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Socrates (469-399 BC) is one of history's most enigmatic figures. Our knowledge of him comes to us second-hand, primarily from the philosopher Plato, who was Socrates' most gifted student, and from the historian and sometime-philosopher Xenophon, who counted himself as a member of Socrates' inner circle of friends. We also hear of Socrates in one comic play produced during his lifetime (Aristophanes' Clouds) and in passing from the philosopher Aristotle, a student of Plato. Socrates is a figure of enduring interest. He is often considered the father of Western Philosophy, yet the four most famous accounts we have of him present a contradictory, confusing picture. Just who was Socrates? A brilliant philosopher, at times confounding and infuriating, morally serious and yet ironic; the ever-worldly man, sometime mystic, and uncommon martyr depicted by Plato? Or did Plato conflate Socrates' views with his own startling genius, as Aristotle suggests? Was So rates instead the less impressive, more mundane man whose commonsense impressed the laconic Xenophon? Or was Socrates the charlatan, the long-winded phony of Aristophanes' play? The Socratic works of Diogenes Laertius (3rd century AD), Libanius (AD 314 -- c. 393), Maximus of 'Tyre (2nd century AD), and Apuleius (born c. AD 125) add important dimensions to the portrait of Socrates: Diogenes Laertius' Life of Socrates emphasizes Socrates' deep ethical nature and his extraordinary personality; Libanius' Apology of Socrates is based on sources now lost to us; Maximus of Tyre's Whether Socrates Did the Right Thing When He Did Not Defend Himself makes the star ling claim (against testimony of Plato and Xenophon) that Socrates never spoke athis own trial; from Apuleius' On the God of Socrates we hear at length of Socrates' infamous daimonion: the "divine sign" only mentioned elsewhere, the sign that warned Socrates against certain courses of action. In short, from these four texts we are reintroduced to Socrates, and new wrinkles are added to an already intriguing historical figure.