Photograph by Bridgeman/ACI The Greek historian Xenophon recounts in his Symposium that one day Socrates was out walking with some friends when they were approached by Callias, a wealthy Athenian.

Drawing on Plato, Aristophanes, and Xenophon, What Would Socrates Do? reconstructs Socrates' philosophy alongside and against Athens's late fifth-century political culture. Sensitive to text and ...

Volume 1 comprises an introduction, presenting an overview of Ancient philosophy of religion, and a series of essays on Ancient philosophers, including Pythagoras, Constantinos, Socrates, Xenophon, ...