Socrates in Love : The Making of a Philosopher

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Socrates in Love : The Making of a PhilosopherAn innovative and insightful exploration of the passionate early life of Socrates and the influences that led him to become the first and greatest of philosophersSocrates: the philosopher whose questioning gave birth to the ideas of Western thought, and whose execution marked the end of the Athenian Golden Age. Yet despite his pre eminence among the great thinkers of history, little of his life story is known. What we know tends to begin in his middle

998–1032Aristophanes

Physiognomical texts of the era show how intently men scrutinized one another for minute signs of gender deviance in such features as gait

Nothing is known of him after 404

the question of how to resume life looms large

Bosch searches for the "black box": a piece of evidence that will lead him to the solution

he was indeed remembered for his life and his works - but not for all of them

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a recurring nightmare haunts his sleep

of Roman culture more broadly

also served Rome and gave her their support

he leaves behind a new

Sophocles' Philoctetes is an extraordinarily timely and timeless play