The Trial of Socrates
Recommended by: Sam Altman
At the same time, the reconsideration of events relating to his trial and execution, often considered from those who disagree with history's greatest historians on down, this analysis offers fresh insight, silencing some of the hoary old chestnuts of standard narratives regarding his "conflict" with Athenian society, the "meaning" of ancient democracy, freedom of speech, political dynamics, and so on—in short, just an alternative view on intellectual confrontation in the classical era.