num_pages: 272
description: In the year 2042 Sierra a young graduate student in Classics is shown a new dialog of Socrates recently discovered in which a time traveler tries to argue that Socrates might escape death by travel to the future! Thomas the elderly scholar who has shown her the document disappears and Sierra immediately begins to track down the provenance of the manuscript with the help of her classical scholar boyfriend Max. The trail leads her to time machines in a gentlemen's club in London and in New York and into the past--and to a time traveler from her future posing as Heron of Alexandria in 150 AD. Complications mysteries travels and time loops proliferate as Sierra tries to discern who is planning to save the greatest philosopher in human history. Fascinating historical characters from Alcibiades to William Henry Appleton the great nineteenth-century American publisher to Hypatia and Socrates himself appear.
language: English
title: The Plot to Save Socrates
publisher: JoSar MeDia