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In the famous British writer and historian: an excellent new guide mixing historic query and story-telling élan to paint an unprecedentedly vibrant symbol of Socrates and the Golden-Age of traditional Athens. We believe the way we do since Socrates believed the way he did; in his unwavering dedication to reality and in the exemplory instance of their own existence, he established the conventional for several future Western philosophy. And yet, for twenty five generations, he's remained an enigma: a guy who left no written heritage and about whom anything we all know is hearsay. His life spanned “seventy of the busiest, most heartbreaking and fantastic decades in Athenian history.” Athens in the fifth-century B.C. was a town ravaged by conflict, but, at the same time frame, changed by the growing procedure for democracy.