The Hemlock Cup Socrates, Athens, and the Search for the Good Life by Bettany Hughes Knopf, 528 pp., $35 In 399 b.c., in a prison cell in Athens, a man — convicted and sentenced to death a month ...

“Despite his insistence on the examined life,” Socrates has never been a figure the rest of us have known well, said Walter Isaacson in The New York Times. Western philosophy’s first great thinker ...

The lessons of Socrates have never really gone out of style, but if there's ever a perfect time to revisit the ancient philosopher, now is it. In "How to Think Like Socrates: Ancient Philosophy as a ...

Next Thursday, Chicago's National Hellenic Museum will try to give Socrates a more fair trial than what he got in 399 BC, when he was sentenced to death for impiety. Some of the the country's most ...

Every schoolboy knows that Socrates was an influential Greek educator who was condemned to drink hemlock for “corrupting” Athens’ youth. For 2,300 years Socrates has been pictured, on the strength of ...

The lessons of Socrates have never really gone out of style, but if there’s ever a perfect time to revisit the ancient philosopher, now is it. In “How to Think Like Socrates: Ancient Philosophy as a ...

The brilliant cultural historian Hughes (Helen of Troy) has again produced an intriguing and entertaining biohistory of one of the most important individuals in the ancient world, and of the Athenian ...