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Acknowledgements | p. xiii |
Preface | p. xv |
Introduction | p. xvii |
The dramatic story of Socrates - sources and approach | p. xxiii |
Dramatis personæ | p. xxvii |
List of Illustrations | p. xxxi |
Maps | p. xxxvi |
Athena's City | |
The water-clock: time to be judged | p. 1 |
Athena's city | p. 8 |
Socrates in the Agora | p. 21 |
The Stoa of the King | p. 27 |
The first blood sacrifice | p. 36 |
Checks, balances and magic-men | p. 41 |
Persuade or obey | p. 45 |
Peitho, the power of persuasion | p. 52 |
Socrates as a Young Man | |
Alopeke: a philosopher is born | p. 59 |
Kerameikos - potters and beautiful boys | p. 69 |
Pericles: high society, and democracy as high theatre | p. 78 |
Delos - and the birth of an empire | p. 87 |
Purple ambition | p. 91 |
Paddling in the river, sweating in the gym: Socratic youth | p. 101 |
Gym-hardened fighting men | p. 106 |
'Golden Age' Athens | p. 111 |
Aspasia - Sophe Kai Politike, Wise and Politically Astute | p. 116 |
Socrates the Soldier | |
Samos | p. 127 |
Flexing muscles | p. 135 |
Socrates the soldier | p. 141 |
Demons and virtues | p. 147 |
The plague | p. 154 |
New Gods, New Possibilities: Socrates in Middle Age | |
Silver Owls and a wise owl | p. 161 |
Hot air in the Agora | p. 166 |
Democracy, liberty and freedom of speech | p. 177 |
The good life - after dark | p. 184 |
Delphi, the Oracle | p. 187 |
Gnothi Seauton - Know Yourself | p. 193 |
Aristocrats, democrats and the realities of war | p. 196 |
The Fight Goes on | |
The Peloponnesian War, phase two - a messy siege | p. 205 |
Brickbats and bouquets | p. 211 |
Amphipolis | p. 220 |
Socrates and Love | |
Socrates in the symposium | p. 229 |
The trouble with love | p. 236 |
Oh, tell me the truth about love | p. 239 |
Diotima - a very social priestess | p. 242 |
Little Bears | p. 247 |
Xanthippe | p. 254 |
Alcibiades: violet-crowned, punch-drunk | p. 258 |
Cutting Down the Tallest Corn | |
Melos | p. 267 |
Venus de Milo abused | p. 271 |
Priest of nonsense: playing with fire | p. 273 |
Sicily | p. 279 |
Rivers of blood | p. 286 |
Decelea - closing down the mines | p. 290 |
Time of terror | p. 294 |
Arginusae - standing out in the crowd | p. 305 |
Tall poppies, cut corn | p. 311 |
Thirty Tyrants | p. 318 |
The Trial and Death of Socrates | |
The scapegoat | p. 329 |
An apology | p. 333 |
Twilight and Delos at dawn | p. 339 |
Socrates bound | p. 343 |
Flight from the world | p. 353 |
Coda: The tomb of Socrates - the Tower of the Winds | p. 357 |
Afterword | p. 361 |
Honouring Aphrodite | p. 363 |
Mysteria - the Eleusinian Mysteries | p. 368 |
Timeline | p. 372 |
Text Acknowledgements | p. 380 |
Image Acknowledgements | p. 385 |
Notes | p. 388 |
Bibliography | p. 438 |
Index | p. 473 |
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