The Hemlock Cup
Author: Bettany Hughes
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9781400076017
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Page: 484
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A dual portrait of the classical philosopher and fifth-century B.C. Athens draws on the latest sources to offer insight into the period's daily realities and elements ranging from the gymnasia and the red-light district to the battlefields and the teeming Agora where Socrates frequently spoke and was condemned to death. By the author of Helen of Troy. Reprint.