WELCOME and thank you for visiting my website.
I'm pleased to say that all being well, the book I've been working on, 'Oh Socrates! (Tracking the Olympian Gods and the life and death of Socrates)' will be available by the Autumn.
In this book I write about the stories of the Gods which Socrates questioned. Drawing on my past journeys to Greece, I set the background to the great philosopher's life and times when it was all important not to offend the Gods. I describe his prosecution, trial, imprisonment and death. It has needed a lot of research, and I have tried to lighten it with my own queries regarding religion.
It is very much a book for non-academics who have heard of Socrates and that he drank hemlock but little else. My aim as always is to create a serious but also at times an amusing read.
In this book I write about the stories of the Gods which Socrates questioned. Drawing on my past journeys to Greece, I set the background to the great philosopher's life and times when it was all important not to offend the Gods. I describe his prosecution, trial, imprisonment and death. It has needed a lot of research, and I have tried to lighten it with my own queries regarding religion.
It is very much a book for non-academics who have heard of Socrates and that he drank hemlock but little else. My aim as always is to create a serious but also at times an amusing read.
