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Search - Socrates, the Martyred Messiah: An Essential History of Classical Athens

Socrates the Martyred Messiah An Essential History of Classical Athens
Author: Myron Stagman

SOCRATES, THE MARTYRED MESSIAH [AN ESSENTIAL HISTORY OF CLASSICAL ATHENS] About the Author: Myron Stagman is a Shakespearean and Classical research scholar, a doctor of English Literature from San Francisco, California. He heartily suggests that everyone, for reasons of personal pleasure as well as cultural enhancement, should become... more » familiar with Ancient Greece, that extraordinary place and time in world history. About the Book: Features which place this book quite apart from others on the subject of Socrates: 1.Integrates the life, philosophy, and death of Socrates into an essential history of Classical Athens. Only by viewing Classical Athens in some depth throughout Socrates? lifetime (and even earlier) can the true significance of this very great and extraordinary man be realized. 2.Emphasizes the nature and operation of Athens? participatory democracy, and how it differed from our representative democracies. 3.Presents Socrates as a moral and very political philosopher and activist. 4.Presents new evidence indicating the true reasons for Socrates? indictment and execution (i.e. his moral-political activism and, especially, the Anabasis). 5.Offers recommendations for educational reforms based on Socratic principles. 6.Offers recommendations for adapting principles of Athens? participatory democracy to our own democracies and to our personal lifestyles. Excerpt from the Book: (399 -- The Trial of Socrates) So the government wanted Socrates either exiled or dead. Both the Apology (the Greek word apologia translates as defense, not apology) and the Crito affirm that Socrates could have left Athens after the writ had been served but before trial. Yet he refused, preferring to stand trial. A number of factors affected his decision. For one, it has been well remarked that in ancient times ?the loss of civic life meant to a Greek the loss of his higher interests?. Of no one could this be more applicable than to Socrates. His life?s blood was his Mission and Ministry in Athens. The jury he had to face was comprised of 501 men over the age of 30. It would not have been a good jury for him, excluding young people as it did, and including many poor and old people who sat for the 3 obols payment, possibly many of them conscious of Socrates? opposition to State-pay for such activity and the imperialism which (until 404) had largely paid those wages. On the other hand, Athenians were generally tolerant of a man?s speech and opinions, and the death penalty for talking was not a common punishment. Socrates and his talk were old familiar figures in Athens ? he and it were not shockingly new threats. He was an old eccentric character in the city over whom opinion had always been divided. . . . . On balance, Socrates did not face a favorably-disposed jury by any means. But he had a good chance of either being acquitted, paying a substantial fine, or being exiled. A majority of the jury was not dead set against him. In the presentation, a defendant spoke for himself and could call character witnesses on his behalf in an attempt to sway these common folk. In short, everything depended on his presentation.

ISBN-13: 9780970926586
ISBN-10: 0970926588
Pages: 219
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Publisher: City-State Press
Book Type: Paperback
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