Emma Park

An unlikely heart-throb

Even Plato didn’t see him as that. But Armand D’Angour does, presenting him in youth as a handsome hoplite, in thrall to Pericles’ seductive mistress

issue 30 March 2019

  • Socrates in Love: The Making of a Philosopher

    Armand D’Angour

    Bloomsbury, pp. 272

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