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Why Socrates died

by Robin Waterfield

2009 253 pages eng

This book is a revisionist account of the most famous trial and execution in Western civilization -- one with great resonance for modern society. In the spring of 399 BCE, the elderly philosopher Socrates stood trial in his native Athens. The court was packed, and after being found guilty by his pee…

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