Episode 4: Expert Opinion - Paul Cartledge
This Week In Free Speech with Jacob Mchangama
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The Trial of Socrates
The trial of socrates, which you have written about in your book on ancient greek political thought from thousand and nine. And you make the argument that the conviction was consistent with athenian law. But can you take us through why you've reached that conclusion? Well, i reace it for two reasons really. One is the term 'political' because of the timing and because of socratess connections. The other is what we think about the way in which the athenians were doing politics around the turn of the fifth, fourth century b c.
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