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SOCRATES, THE MARTYRED MESSIAH
[AN ESSENTIAL HISTORY OF CLASSICAL ATHENS]

City-State Press

220 pages (with index), non-fiction, paperback, published May 2001,
available on order from Amazon online and any bookstore.

ISBN 0-9709265-8-8Price: $ 14.95

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.

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