Why Socrates Died
Why Socrates Died: Dispelling the Myths
by Robin Waterfield
-Reviewed by Jodie Liu
Man and myth, hero and villain, scrupulous citizen and impious social deviant – after his death, whenever a quality was attributed to Socrates, he was also called its opposite. So much was written about the man that only decades after he drank a cup of hemlock, Socrates became a subject of great controversy and intrigue. In a revisionist history that decodes the strange circumstances of Socrates’ trial for a modern audience, Robin Waterfield proposes a new understanding of …
