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...charge that he was impious and had corrupted the young, Socrates refuses to escape and save his skin, preferring to save his soul. Not nearly as perceptive an account as Plato's, of course, but full of lively local color (garlic-eating jurymen, the seductive street wiles of Athenian slave girls) and a sympathetic look at Socrates' much maligned wife, Xanthippe...
...Stoa, a long, two-story promenade of white marble, was given to Athens by Attalus II, King of Pergamum (159-138 B.C.). On the second floor were 42 small shops, presumably serving the Athenian carriage trade. The ground floor behind the row of tall columns was a social and cultural center, where poets, philosophers and politicians met. With the help of about $1,000,000 of Rockefeller money matched by a like amount from other U.S. sources, the restorers are gathering the surviving stones. They are sure that they know enough to duplicate accurately almost the entire building...
...other books dealt chiefly with ancient Athens. "Hellenistic Athens" (1911), "Greek Imperialism" (1912), several chapters of the Cambridge Ancient History, "The Treasures of Athens" (1931), and "Athenian Tribal Cycles (1932) are among his most significant works...
...better known doctoral students was President Pusey, who received his Ph.D. in 1937 for a study of Athenian...
Books & Men. Back at Harvard, Pusey eventually turned out a Ph.D. thesis on 4th century Athenian law. Meanwhile, he took two trips abroad, traveled in Greece, explored the cathedrals and palaces of Rome. In 1936 he married a trim Bryn Mawr graduate named Anne Woodward, whom he had once tutored in algebra back in Iowa. By that time he had begun "teaching my way across the country"-at Lawrence. Scripps College in California, and Wesleyan...