@article{428645,
      author = {Hughes, Bettany.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/428645},
      title = {The hemlock cup : Socrates, Athens and the search for the  good life /},
      publisher = {A.A. Knopf,},
      abstract = {In his unwavering commitment to truth and in the example  of his own life, Socrates set the standard for all  subsequent Western philosophy. And yet, for twenty-five  centuries, he has remained an enigma: a man who left no  written legacy and about whom everything we know is  hearsay, gleaned from the writings of Plato, Xenophon and  Aristophanes. Now historian Bettany Hughes gives us a vivid  portrait of Socrates and of his homeland, Athens in its  Golden Age. His life spanned "seventy of the busiest, most  wonderful and tragic years in Athenian history." It was a  city devastated by war, but, at the same time, transformed  by the burgeoning process of democracy, and Hughes  re-creates this fifth-century B.C. city, drawing on the  latest sources to illuminate the streets where Socrates  walked, to place him there and to show us the world as he  experienced it.--From publisher description.},
      recid = {428645},
      pages = {xxxv, 484 p., [16] p. of plates :},
      address = {New York :},
      year = {2011},
}