Socrates: A Man for Our Times (17 page)

plague in

population size of

public events in

social mobility in

Socrates’ perambulations of

Socrates’ statue in

traditional religion of

women’s position in

see also
Acropolis

Athens, legal system of

Arginusae victory and

executions in

flaws of

prominent citizens prosecuted in

social demoralization and

Socrates’ upholding of

Thirty Tyrants regime and

undifferentiated public vs. private interest in

Austen, Jane

Bevan, Aneurin

Briand, Aristide

British Museum

Callicles

Callicrates

Carpion

Chaerephon

Charmides

Christianity

Churchill, Winston

Cicero

Cimon

city planning

city-states

Cleisthenes

Cleiton

Cleon

Clouds
(Aristophanes)

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Confucius

Critias

Crito

Crito
(Plato)

Critobulus

Damon

Dawkins, Richard

Delian League

Delium, retreat from

Delphi

Oracle of

Democritus

Demosthenes

Diodotus

Diogenes Laertius

Dionysus

Diotima of Mantinea

dithyrambs

drama

actors in

annual contests of

Book of Job as

chorus in

comedy

major playwrights of

religious origin of

tragedy

Egypt

Eleatics

Eleusinian Mysteries

entasis

Ephialtes

Epidaurus

Euripides

Euthyphro
(Plato)

Exodus, Book of

Ezra

Frogs
(Aristophanes)

genocide

Gladstone, W. E.

Gorgias
(Plato)

Great Britain

attorney general of

Bill of Attainder process in

taxation by

Greek language

Hebrews

drama of

language of

Torah of

Heraclitus of Ephesus

Hermippus

Herodotus

Hesiod

hetaerae

Hipparchus

Hippocrates

Hippolytus
(Euripides)

Holland, Lord

Homer

homosexuality

hoplites

Ictinus

impiety

Isocrates

Job, Book of

Johnson, Samuel

Jonson, Ben

Julius Africanus

justice

evil and

five principles of

as form of self-interest

moral absolutism of

retaliation rejected in

slavery and

for women

Keynes, John Maynard

Knights
(Aristophanes)

Laches
(Plato)

Laws
(Plato)

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von

Leonidas

Leon of Salamis

Longford, Frank

lyre

Lysander

Lysias

Lysistrata
(Aristophanes)

Macaulay, Thomas Babington

maenads

Marathon, Battle of

mathematics

Medea
(Euripides)

Megacles

Meletus

Memoirs
(Xenophon)

Meno
(Plato)

Miltiades

Moore, Henry

Moore, Thomas

moral education

More, Thomas

Munich Gallery of Antique Art

music

musical ethics

musical instruments

Myrto

Mytilene

Nicias

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Olympic games

Open Society and Its Enemies, The
(Popper)

Oracle of Delphi

paeans

Panhellenic games

Parmenides

Parrhasius

Parthenon

entasis of

frieze of

sculptural embellishment of

statue of Athena in

Pasion

Paul, Saint

Pausanias

Peace
(Aristophanes)

Peloponnesian War

Pericles

Aspasia and

cultural program of

death of

Delian League tribute spent by

humanism of

imperialism of

military funeral oration of

paeans favored by

plague and

pleiad led by

portrait sculptures of

prosecution of

Persae
(Aeschylus)

Persian Empire

Phaedo
(Plato)

Phaedrus
(Plato)

Phaenarete

Phidias

Philo of Alexandria

Plataea, Battle of

Plato

Academy of

career as poet contemplated by

dialectic defined by

drama and

eros
and

as first intellectual

mathematics in work of

mother of

on musical ethics

as radical conservative

republic favored by

retaliation and

Socrates as ventriloquist’s doll of

Socrates’ trial in works of

soul as viewed by

textual errors in work of

Plutarch

poetry

phrases in

recital of

of Socrates

Polus

Popper, Karl

Potidaea, siege of

pre-Socratic philosophers

Prometheus Bound
(Aeschylus)

Protagoras

Protagoras
(Plato)

Pythagoras

Pythian Games

Quintilian

Republic
(Plato)

retaliation, law of

rhetoric

Rodin, Auguste

Rome

Borghese Gallery

Greek sculpture copied by

Russell, Bertrand

satyrs

scribes

Silenus

slavery

Socrates:

on art

background of

charm of

children of

classlessness of

as conservative radical

courage of

craftsmanship as interest of

cross-examination technique of

death of

education of

Euripides’ play amended by

facial expression controlled by

gadfly as self-comparison of

good life pursued by

on Heraclitus

how to think conveyed by

human nature as viewed by

imperturbable serenity of

influence of

inner voice (
daemo
) of

irony of

jokes of

last words of

medical interests of

military career of

musical interests of

on Olympic victories

on oratory vs. philosophy

philosophical approach of

as Platsoc

portrait sculptures of

public career rejected by

pupils of

recurring dream of

religious views of

sayings of

self-control cultivated by

stone carver trade attributed to

theatrical attacks on

ugly appearance of

wisdom disclaimed by

women as viewed by

words defined by

zestful liveliness of

Socrates, trial and condemnation of

and Alcibiades and Critias

alternative punishment proposed in

charges in

conviction in

death sentence in

defense in

events leading to

ill-advised irony in

imprisonment in–80

jury of

last hours in

poison drunk in

refusal of escape from

Socrates
(Vlastos)

Sophists

Sophocles

Sophroniscus

soul

body and

Plato’s view of

Socrates’ view of

Sparta

in Peloponnesian War

Symposium
(Plato)

Symposium
(Xenophon)

Syracuse, defeat at

Thales

Theaetetus
(Plato)

Themistocles

theodicy, doctrine of

Theramenes

Theseus

Thesmophoriazusae
(Aristophanes)

Thespis

Thrasymachus

Thucydides

Torah

Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de

Vitruvius

Vlastos, Gregory

Wasps
(Aristophanes)

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Wordsworth, William

World War II

Xanthippe

Xanthippus

Xenophon

Zeno

Zeus

Zeuxis

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