This volume has the uniqueness of aiming to provide a comprehensive picture of the most famous philosopher in antiquity, perhaps even to this day, the Athenian Socrates.
As is well known, some great mystics (religious leaders, philosophers, politicians) taught but left no written work; they were "writers of the oral word." It fell to those who were direct or indirect students of theirs the not easy task of presenting the teachings of the master, describing the details of his life, and interpreting in their own way what they perceived to be the authentic image of a character interpreted differently by others. To avoid mentioning more cases, let us limit ourselves to the established four gospels of the New Testament and the numerically greater apocryphal gospels.
In the case of Socrates, who undoubtedly wrote nothing but taught for many years at every opportunity that arose, there were many, as evidenced by related reports, who self-proclaimed successors established their "Socratic" schools after his death, wrote about Socrates, and certainly with some self-satisfaction claimed to be the spiritual heirs of the great philosopher. Their works on Socrates have not survived. Fortunately for us, among the works of two prolific Athenians, Plato and Xenophon, some works (more from the former, fewer from the latter) have survived, in which the words of Socrates play a starring role.
Manufacturer
- Author
- THeodoros Mayropoulos
- Publisher
- Idiotiki Ekdosi
- Genre
- Ancient Greek Literature
- Subtitle
- -
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 466
- Release Date
- 01/09/2019
- Publication Date
- 2019
- Dimensions
- 13x19 cm
- Language
- Greek
- Original text
- No
- Translation
- Yes
- Bilingual edition
- No
- ISBN-13
- 9786188453050
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