Socrates in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Socrates son of Sophroniscus of Alopece is arguably the most richly and diversely commemorated - and appropriated - of all ancient thinkers. Already in Antiquity vigorous controversy over his significance and value ensured a wide range of conflicting representations. He then became available to the medieval renaissance and modern worlds in a provocative variety of roles: as paradigmatic philosopher and representative (for good or ill) of ancient philosophical culture in general; as practitioner ...See More