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We think the way we do because Socrates thought the way he did; in his unwavering commitment to truth and in the example of his own life, he 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 Bettany Hughes gives us an unprecedented, brilliantly 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 sourcesarchaeological, topographical and textualto illuminate the streets where Socrates walked, to place him there and to show us the world as he experienced it. She takes us through the great, teeming Agorathe massive marketplace, the heart of ancient Athenswhere Socrates engaged in philosophical dialogue and where he would be condemned to death. We visit the battlefields where he fought, the red-light district and gymnasia he frequented and the religious festivals he attended. We meet the men and the few womenincluding his wife, Xanthippe, and his inspiration and confidante, Aspasiawho were central to his life. We travel to where he was born and where he died. And we come to understand the profound influences of time and place in the evolution of his eternally provocative philosophy.Deeply informed and vibrantly written, combining historical inquiry and storytelling ?lan, The Hemlock Cup gives us the most substantial, fascinating, humane depiction we have ever had of one of the most influential thinkers of all time.

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TEXT ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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Grateful acknowledgement is made for permission to reproduce material from the following translations: D. Allen, from A Schedule of Boundaries: An Exploration Launched from the Water-Clock of Athenian Time (1996), Greece & Rome (43.2), Cambridge University Press; J. Barnes, from S. Everson (trans. and ed.), Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens (1996), Cambridge University Press; D. Barrett, from Aristophanes: The Frogs and Other Plays (1964), Penguin; S. Berg and D. Clay, from Oedipus the King: The Greek Tragedy in New Translations (1978), Oxford University Press; S. Blundell, from page 1 of S. Blundell and M. Williamson (eds.), The Sacred Feminine in Ancient Greece (1998), Routledge; T. C. Brickhouse and N. D. Smith, from The Trial and Execution of Socrates: Sources and Controversies (2002), Oxford University Press; C. L. Brownson, reprinted by permission of the publishers and trustees of the Loeb Classical Library from Xenophon: Volume I, Loeb Classical Library Volume 88, translated by C. L. Brownson, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 1918, by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Loeb Classical Library is a registered trademark of the President and Fellows of Harvard College; C. L. Brownson, reprinted by permission of the publishers and trustees of the Loeb Classical Library from Xenophon: Volume III, Loeb Classical Library Volume 90, translated by C. L. Brownson, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 1922, by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Loeb Classical Library is a registered trademark of the President and Fellows of Harvard College; R. G. Bury, reprinted by permission of the publishers and trustees of the Loeb Classical Library from Plato: Volume IX, Loeb Classical Library Volume 234, translated by R. G. Bury, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 1929, by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Loeb Classical Library is a registered trademark of the President and Fellows of Harvard College; S. Butler, Iliad from Perseus Digital Library (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu); E. P. Coleridge, from W. J. Oates and E. ONeill Jr. (eds.), Euripides: The Complete Greek Drama in Two Volumes. Vol. I, Hecuba (1938), Random House (USA); F. M. Cornford, from E. Hamilton and H. Cairns (eds.), The Collected Dialogues of Plato (1973), Princeton University Press; H. G. Dakyns, from The Works of Xenophon (1890), Macmillan; J. Davidson, from The Greeks and Greek Love: A Radical Reappraisal of Homosexuality in Ancient Greece (2007), Weidenfeld & Nicolson, an imprint of The Orion Publishing Group, London, Orion Publishing/Random House, New York; J. M. Dent, from Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War (1910), Penguin (for E. P. Dutton); J. Elsner, from Roman Eyes: Visuality and Subjectivity in Art and Text (2007), Princeton University Press; H. G. Evelyn-White, reprinted by permission of the publishers and the Trustees of the Loeb Classical Library from Hesiod, Loeb Classical Library Volume 57, translated by H. G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press 1914, by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Loeb Classical Library is a registered trademark of the President and Fellows of Harvard College; N. Fisher, from Aeschines. Against Timarchus (2001), Oxford University Press; J. Fogel, from T. C. Brickhouse and N. D. Smith (eds.), The Trial and Execution of Socrates: Sources and Controversies (2002) by Oxford University Press; H. P. Foley, from E. Fantham, H. Foley, N. B. Kampen, S. B. Pomeroy, H. A. Shapiro (eds.), Women in the Classical World: Image and Text (1994), Oxford University Press; H. N. 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Henry, from Prisoner of History: Aspasia of Miletus and Her Biographical Tradition (1995), Oxford University Press; R. D. Hicks, reprinted by permission of the publishers and the Trustees of the Loeb Classical Library from Diogenes Laertius: Volume I, Loeb Classical Library Volume 184, translated by R. D. Hicks, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1915, by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Loeb Classical Library is a registered trademark of the President and Fellows of Harvard College; D. S. Hutchinson, Plato: Alcibiades, from J. M. Cooper (ed.), Plato: Complete Works (1997), Hackett; R. C. Jebb, from Sophocles: The Plays and Fragments with Critical Notes, Commentary and Translation in English Prose, Part V. The Trachinae (1892), Cambridge University Press; B. Jowett, from The Dialogues of Plato (1953), Clarendon Press; M. Joyce, from E. Hamilton and H. Cairns (eds.), The Collected Works of Plato (1973), Princeton University Press; D. 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