Why Socrates died: dispelling the myths

The trial of Socrates

Socrates in court

How the system worked

The charge of impiety

The war years

Alcibiades, Socrates, and the aristocratic milieu

Pestilence and war

The rise and fall of Alcibiades

The end of the war

Critias and Civil War

- Crisis and conflict

Symptoms of change

Reactions to intellectuals

The condemnation of Socrates

Socratic politics

A cock for Asclepius.