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The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life QUOTES

The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life QUOTES

1 " Herodotus, the ‘Father of History’, records the moment – and you can hear the emotion in his voice as he does so, a mixture of horror and awe: Then Kleisthenes took into his faction the common people.19 "

― Bettany Hughes , The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life

2 " Socrates argued that only God can be a sophist, only God can be truly wise. "

― Bettany Hughes , The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life

3 " In Socrates’ lifetime more than 800 triremes were launched from Athenian-controlled harbours: the largest manned navy the world had ever known. "

― Bettany Hughes , The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life

4 " So at that time of day when the early sun still rings haloes on human heads, Socrates is walking through the Agora to his judgement day. "

― Bettany Hughes , The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life

5 " The highest hope of Socrates’ peers, of young Athenian men, was to serve Athens by dying for her. "

― Bettany Hughes , The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life

6 " For excess breeds hubris, when great prosperity comes to men of unsound mind.16 "

― Bettany Hughes , The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life

7 " Their fathers had been slaughtered over the stretch of a half-century by the Persians, their mothers raped. And still they had not caved in. "

― Bettany Hughes , The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life

8 " he comes across as alarmingly unpredictable, leaping out at unsuspecting passers-by and startling them with a moral challenge. "

― Bettany Hughes , The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life