Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Prologue xiii
Part 1 The Path to the Questions
Chapter 1 The City of Gods and Humans 3
Chapter 2 The Way to Citizenship 17
Chapter 3 The Young Intellectual 33
Chapter 4 The Nature of Reality 41
Chapter 5 Questions for an Age of Humanism 55
Part 2 Asking the Questions
Chapter 6 The Growth of a Following 65
Chapter 7 The Sophists 81
Chapter 8 Knowledge and Morality 101
Chapter 9 The Democracy and the Spartan Alternative 111
Chapter 10 Athens on the Ascent 125
Chapter 11 Potidaea and the Welcome Return 143
Chapter 12 Crisis and Cruelty 155
Chapter 13 Definitions of Courage 160
Chapter 14 The Clouds 179
Chapter 15 Family and Divine Mission 191
Chapter 16 Melos, Alcibiades, and the Teachability of Virtue 205
Chapter 17 The Conscientious Objector 229
Part 3 The Last Days
Chapter 18 The Charges and the Question of Piety 245
Chapter 19 The Trial 261
Chapter 20 Sentencing and Imprisonment 283
Chapter 21 The Fatal Drink 305
Epilogue 315
Notes 319
A Note on the Sources 343
Bibliography 347
Glossary 351
Index 361
Maps
Mainland Greece and the Aegean with inset of Attica xii
The city of Athens 16
Highlights of the Agora toward the end of Socrates's life 32
The Long Walls of Ancient Athens 157