A Companion to Socrates [Paperback]

• Discusses the life of Socrates and key philosophical doctrines associated with him
• Covers the whole range of Socratic studies from the ancient world to contemporary European philosophy
• Examines Socrates’ place in the larger philosophical traditions of the Hellenistic world, the Roman Empire, the Arabic world, the Renaissance, and contemporary Europe
• Addresses interdisciplinary subjects such as Socrates and Nietzsche, Socrates and psychoanalysis, and representations of Socrates in art
• Helps readers to understand the meaning and significance of Socrates across the ages

Notes on Contributors x

Preface xiv

Acknowledgments xxiv

PART ONE: SOCRATES IN ANTIQUITY

Section I: Biography and Sources

1 The Trial and Death of Socrates 5
Debra Nails

2 Socrates and Euripides 21
Christian Wildberg

3 Socrates Among the Sophists 36
Paul Woodruff

4 Socrates the Freethinker 48
Richard Janko

5 How Does Socrates’ Divine Sign Communicate with Him? 63
A. A. Long

6 Socrates, Antisthenes, and the Cynics 75
Susan Prince

7 Xenophon’s Socrates 93
Louis-André Dorion

8 Picturing Socrates 110
Kenneth Lapatl£t