Bettany Hughes is an award-winning historian, author and broadcaster. Her first book, "Helen of Troy, " has been translated into ten languages. She has written and presented numerous documentaries for the BBC, PBS, the Discovery Channel, the History Channel and National Geographic, which have been seen by more than 100 million viewers worldwide. She received her degrees in ancient and medieval history from Oxford University and holds a Research Fellowship at King's College, London. She lives in the United Kingdom and abroad with her husband and their two daughters.
"Fascinating . . . What Bettany Hughes provides is something vital:
a life and times of Socrates that is so richly textured, flavorful
and atmospheric that it makes human this most enigmatic of all
philosophers. By the end of her book, we can almost see and smell
the man, with all of his quirks and foibles and questioning
brilliance."
--Walter Isaacson, "The New York Times Book Review"
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"Bettany Hughes's terrifically readable life of Socrates is more
than just a life; it is also an evocation and explanation of the
world that created him, and over which he would come to have such
influence . . . "The Hemlock Cup" makes a vivid and persuasive case
for the study of Socrates as a valuable means to understanding how
our way of thinking about our own world came to be, and a guide to
how we might understand it better."
--"The Independent on Sunday" (UK)
"A beguiling book . . . Hughes triumphs again. This is history, and
historical reconstruction, exactly as it should be written . . .
The Socrates Hughes creates is ultimately a towering yet intensely
human figure. He lives and speaks again in these pages: It's a
singular accomplishment."
--"The Washington Post"
"Delightful . . . Hughes presents a high-octane account of Socrates
and his age . . . "Do "read this book, both because of its
marvelous storytelling and because it will stimulate a desire to
learn more about the ancient world."
--"The Wall Street Journal"
"Bettany Hughes has done it again; she brings to life not only
Socrates himself but the whole of Periclean Athens. Here is a work
of dazzling erudition which remains hugely readable--what more can
one ask?"
--John Julius Norwich, author of "Byzantium"
"No one before Bettany Hughes, a highly accomplished communicator,
has thought to weave Socrates's examined life into quite so rich
and dense a tapestry of democratic Athens's teeming high-cultural
and mundane experience . . . Hughes's enormous energy and
enthusi
"Bettany Hughes's terrifically readable life of Socrates is more
than just a life; it is also an evocation and explanation of the
world that created him, and over which he would come to have such
influence . . . "The Hemlock Cup" makes a vivid and persuasive case
for the study of Socrates as a valuable means to understanding how
our way of thinking about our own world came to be, and a guide to
how we might understand it better."
--"Independent on Sunday" (UK)
"An invigorating, tremendous work of scholarship . . . A smart and
entertaining 'biography' of Socrates as shaped against the great
experiment of democracy in 5th-century BCE Athens . . . Hughes
thrillingly navigates the life stages of her subject."
--"Kirkus Reviews"
"A compelling study of an exceptional man's relationship with the
one community that had a hope of understanding and accepting him.
There's some terrific and
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