Bettany Hughes books

The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life (2011)

A biography of Athens in the Golden Age as much as Socrates, whose life spanned the beginning and end of the idealistic Athenian democracy. I found the way Hughes parallels the Peloponnesian War and Athenian events with what we know of Socrates really absorbing and much easier to follow than my h...