Memories of Socrates: Memorabilia and Apology - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Xenophon, Martin Hammond, Carol AtackSeries:Oxford World's ClassicsPublish date:2023-06-23Pages:304
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780198856092ISBN-10:198856091UPC:9780198856092Book Category:Literary Criticism, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Ancient and Classical, History & SurveysBook Topic:Ancient & ClassicalSize:7.40 x 5.20 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SC7QAWFGKD
Memories of Socrates: Memorabilia and Apology
'Who would you say knows himself?' In 399 BCE Socrates was tried in Athens on charges of irreligion and corruption of the young, convicted, and sentenced to death. Like Plato, an almost exact contemporary, in his youth Xenophon (c. 430-c. 354 BCE) was one of the circle of mainly upper-class young Athenians attracted to Socrates' teaching. His Memorabilia is both a passionate defence of Socrates...
Series: Oxford World's Classics
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780198856092ISBN-10:198856091UPC:9780198856092Book Category:Literary Criticism, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Ancient and Classical, History & SurveysBook Topic:Ancient & ClassicalSize:7.40 x 5.20 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SC7QAWFGKD
Xenophon Martin Hammond was born in 1944 and educated at Winchester College and Balliol College, Oxford. He has taught at St Paul's School, Harrow School, and Eton College, where he was Head of Classics from 1974 to 1980, and Master in College from 1980 to 1984. He was Headmaster of the City of London School from 1984 to 1990, and of Tonbridge School from 1990 to his retirement in 2005. He is the...
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