Why Socrates died
Subtitle: dispelling the myths
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9780393065275
Description: Robin Waterfield presents Socrates as a deeply moral thinker whose convictions stood in stark relief to those of his former disciple, Alcibiades, the hawkish and self-serving military leader. Refusing to surrender his beliefs even in the face of death, Socrates was determined to save his native Athens even as the city-state was tearing itself apart and falling into moral decline.