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The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life
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The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life Hardcover - 2010

by Hughes, Bettany

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UK: Jonathan Cape, 2010. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. includes Very Good dustjacket. jacket has 5mm tear to spine top and small amount of creasing at spine ends. inscription signed by author on title page. 1st edition. 1st impression. pages browning. smudge on edge of text block..
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BETTANY HUGHES is a historian, author and broadcaster who has devoted much of the last twenty years to the vibrant communication of the past. Her first book, Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore was published to great critical acclaim and has now been translated into ten languages. Bettany has made a number of factual films for the BBC, Channel 4, PBS, Discovery, The History Channel and ABC for both the British and International markets including The Spartans, When The Moors Ruled in Europe, Athens:The Truth of Democracy, The Women of the Bible and Helen of Troy. These have now been seen by over 100 million worldwide.




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"The Hemlock Cup is another vibrant and atmospheric work from this well-known promotor of the ancient world."
—Michael Scott, BBC History Magazine

"In The Hemlock Cup Bettany Hughes does a very good job of recreating the material world in which Socrates lived... She is up to date on recent archaeological discoveries... she writes frankly of the nastiness of the world in which Socrates grew up and lived."
—Mary Beard, Sunday Times

About the author

BETTANY HUGHES is a historian, author and broadcaster who has devoted much of the last twenty years to the vibrant communication of the past. Her first book, Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore was published to great critical acclaim and has now been translated into ten languages. Bettany has made a number of factual films for the BBC, Channel 4, PBS, Discovery, The History Channel and ABC for both the British and International markets including The Spartans, When The Moors Ruled in Europe, Athens: The Truth of Democracy, The Women of the Bible and Helen of Troy. These have now been seen by over 100 million worldwide.

"From the Trade Paperback edition."