HISTORY: The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good LifeBy Bettany Hughes Jonathan Cape, 544pp. £25 THERE CAN'T BE, from my point of view, too many books about Socrates, so I am not ...

Socrates’ life, trial, and prophecy reveal his pursuit of truth, divine guidance, and the lasting consequences of Athens’ ...

The Man known to history as Socrates or socratis in Greek was born between 470 and 468 BC in the village of alopi a suburb of the Greek city state of Athens which lay just to the southeast of the city ...

The ancient philosopher Socrates, a towering figure in the history of Western thought, famously declared, "An unexamined life is not worth living." This profound statement, simple yet intricate, ...

The World Cup's host country Brazil won their first match on Thursday. Tuesday they face off against Mexico. Brazil has produced a lot of soccer superstars over the years. But if you ask Brazilians ...

The passage explores Socrates’ idea that human perfection is not an individual achievement but a collective one, arguing that ...

When Bettany Hughes published her study of Helen of Troy in 2005, skeptics had good cause for doubt that anything worthwhile could be made out of such a hackneyed and intangible subject. Yet Hughes ...

Philosophy is often thought of as being detached from “real life”. The greatest philosophers, though, sought to grasp the nature of human beings and their place in the universe, and gave guidance on ...