Socrates

What This Book Covers

1. Chapter One - The Bricklayer’s Son
2. Chapter Two - Youth in the Agora
3. Chapter Three - A New Kind of Hero
4. Chapter Four - The Sophists and the City
5. Chapter Five - The Question That Breaks the World
6. Chapter Six - Enter Plato
7. Chapter Seven - The War and the Wound
8. Chapter Eight - The Trial of the Century
9. Chapter Nine - The Apology
10. Chapter Ten - The Counteroffer
11. Chapter Eleven - Waiting for the Cup
12. Chapter Twelve - The Hemlock and the Soul
13. Chapter Thirteen - What Did He Mean?
14. Chapter Fourteen - socrates.exe

Excerpt

CHAPTER ONE The Bricklayer’s Son THERE WAS NO prophecy in his birth. No star in the sky, no divine bloodline. Just a boy born in Athens around 470 BCE. A city not yet an empire, not yet a graveyard. His father was a stonemason named Sophroniscus. His mother, Phaenarete, a midwife. One shaped bodies from stone, the other delivered souls into the world. It’s almost too poetic, and yet, it’s real. That’s the origin of Socrates: not myth, not nobility, but sweat. Dirt under the fingernails. Hammer on rock. He didn’t come from philosophers. He came from people who built things. Who knew the weight of labor. Who didn’t pretend to be more than human. And that might be the most important thing...