The dramatic story of Socrates, sources and approach -- Athena's City. The water-clock: time to be judged -- Athena's city -- Socrates in the Agora -- The Stoa of the King -- The first blood sacrifice -- Checks, balances and magic-men -- Persuade or obey -- Peitho, the power of persuasion -- Socrates as a Young Man. Alopeke : a philosopher is born -- Kerameikos, potters and beautiful boys -- Pericles : high society, and democracy as high theatre -- Delos and the birth of an empire -- Purple ambition -- Paddling in the river, sweating in the gym : Socratic youth -- Gym-hardened fighting men -- 'Golden Age' Athens -- Aspasia : Sophe Kai Politike, wise and politically astute -- Socrates the Soldier. Samos -- Flexing muscles -- Socrates the soldier -- Demons and virtues -- The plague -- New Gods, New Possibilities : Socrates in Middle Age. Silver Owls and a wise owl -- Hot air in the Agora -- Democracy, liberty and freedom of speech -- The good life after dark -- Delphi, the Oracle -- Gnothi Seauton: know yourself -- Aristocrats, democrats and the realities of war -- The Fight Goes On. The Peloponnesian War, phase two, a messy siege -- Brickbats and bouquets -- Amphipolis -- Socrates and Love. Socrates in the symposium -- The trouble with love -- Oh, tell me the truth about love -- Diotima, a very social priestess -- Little Bears -- Xanthippe -- Alcibiades: violet-crowned, punch-drunk -- Cutting Down the Tallest Corn. Melos -- Venus de Milo abused -- Priest of nonsense: playing with fire -- Sicily -- Rivers of blood -- Decelea, closing down the mines -- Time of terror -- Arginusae, standing out in the crowd -- Tall poppies, cut corn -- Thirty tyrants -- The Trial and Death of Socrates. The scapegoat -- An apology -- Twilight and Delos at dawn -- Socrates bound -- Flight from the world -- The tomb of Socrates, the Tower of the Winds -- Honouring Aphrodite -- Mysteria, the Eleusinian mysteries.
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