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Title The hemlock cup [electronic resource] : Socrates, Athens and the search for the good life / Bettany Hughes.
Author Hughes, Bettany.
Publication Info. New York : A.A. Knopf, 2011.
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Edition 1st U.S. ed.
Description 1 online resource (xxxv, 484 p., [16] p. of plates) : ill. (some col.), maps.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Athena's city -- Socrates as a young man -- Socrates the soldier -- New gods, new possibilities: Socrates in middle age -- The fight goes on -- Socrates and love -- Cutting down the tallest corn -- The trial and death of Socrates.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Socrates.
Philosophers -- Biography -- Greece -- Athens -- Philosophers -- Biography.
Philosophers, Ancient -- Biography.
Athens (Greece) -- Biography.
Genre Electronic books.
Added Author OverDrive, Inc.
Related To Print version: Hughes, Bettany. Hemlock cup. 1st U.S. ed. New York : A.A. Knopf, 2011 1400041791 (DLC) 2010045486 (OCoLC)630500171
ISBN 9780307595294 ODE (electronic bk.)
0307595293 ODE (electronic bk.)