罗宾·沃特菲尔德：苏格拉底为何而死：消除神话 Why Socrates Died : Dispelling the Myths

基本信息

Format:Paperback / softback 288 pages

Edition:Main

ISBN:9780571235513

Published:4 Feb 2010

Weight:236g

Dimensions:200 x 125 x 19 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

苏格拉底的审判和死亡一起构成了西方文明的一个标志性时刻。我们所拥有的画面——由他的直接追随者创造，并在此后的无数文学和艺术作品中得以延续——是一个贵族在一次愚蠢的行为中被古代雅典民主处死。但是一个图标，一个图像，并不是现实。

在某种程度上，审判是对混乱时期的回应——一场战争和动荡的社会变革——因此提供了一个很好的镜头，通过它来探索这一时期的历史;历史事实让我们剥去了长久以来让我们看不到真正苏格拉底的一些表象。作者是一位学者，但不只是为学者而写，这是对西方文明一个决定性时期的通俗易懂的描述。

Socrates' trial and death together form an iconic moment in Western civilization. The picture we have of it - created by his immediate followers and perpetuated in countless works of literature and art ever since - is that a noble man was put to death in a fit of folly by the ancient Athenian democracy. But an icon, an image, is not reality.

The trial was, in part, a response to troubled times - a war and turbulent social changes - and so provides a good lens through which to explore the history of the period; the historical facts allow us to strip away some of the veneer that has for so long denied us glimpses of the real Socrates. Written by a scholar, but not only for scholars, this is an accessible account of one of the defining periods of Western civilization.

作者简介

罗宾·沃特菲尔德为费伯出版社写的上一本书是《色诺芬的撤退》。2005年，他将色诺芬的《阿纳巴西斯》翻译成《色诺芬:居鲁士远征》。他也是《雅典:一段历史》的作者，并翻译了欧里庇得斯、普鲁塔克、希罗多德、亚里士多德和柏拉图的作品，以及色诺芬的其他作品。

Robin Waterfield's previous book for Faber was Xenophon's Retreat. In 2005 he published a new translation of Xenophon's Anabasis as Xenophon: The Expedition of Cyrus. He is also the author of Athens: A History and has translated works by Euripides, Plutarch, Herodotus, Aristotle, and Plato, as well as other works by Xenophon.