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 Why
did the Athenians
Kill Socrates?
Robert
Wallace
Professor of
Classics, Northwestern
Tuesday,
May 10, 5:30-8:30pm
19 South Wabash, 2d floor
Cocktails at
5:30, presentation 6:00-6:30
followed by discussion and more
cocktails.
$40 includes drinks, two cigars,
and sandwiches.
Reservations are required.
The execution of Sokrates is widely
considered to be the greatest crime of Athens' democracy and an
argument against democratic government.
 Our
impression of that event, however, is based largely on Plato's
defense speech, which Professor Wallace will reveal to be a
lawyer's masterpiece of suppression, distortion, and half-truth.
Wallace will also construct a new case for the plaintiffs. It's
not required, but we recommend (re-)reading Plato's Apology.
It is short and it is one of the best known works in all of
literature. Free downloads:
html, kindle
and other formats,
audio book.
Robert Wallace--
a graduate of Columbia University, Oxford, and Harvard -- is
Professor of Classics at Northwestern University. He is
also a long-time member of the Cigar Society. He works on all
things Greek between 800 and 300 BC, including history,
literature, philosophy, law, numismatics, ancient music theory,
and (most recently) Sokrates.
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Coming
up
Tuesday, May 17
Dr. Reem Safi, An Eyewitness Report on Current
Events in Libya.
19 S. Wabash, 2d floor.
Tuesday, May 24
Emmy and Telly award winner Alfred Rasho
on
Making Short Documentary Films.
19 S. Wabash, 2d floor.
In June thru August the Cigar Society will meet
every nice Tuesday at the Ceres Cafe, outdoors, next to the
Board of Trade Building and Jack Schwartz cigars.
Plato's Apology
Free downloads:
html, kindle
and other formats,
audio book.
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About
the Cigar Society of Chicago
ONE OF THE OLDEST AND greatest
traditions of the city clubs of Chicago is the discussion of
intellectual, social, legal, artistic, historical, scientific,
musical, theatrical, and philosophical issues in the company of
educated, bright, and appropriately provocative individuals, all
under the beneficent influence of substantial amounts of tobacco
and spirits. The
Cigar Society of Chicago embraces this tradition and
extends it with its Informal Smokers,
University Series lectures, and Cigar Society Dinners,
in which cigars, and from time to time pipes and cigarettes,
appear as an important component of our version of the classical
symposium. To be included in the Cigar Society's
mailing list, write to the Secretary at
CigarSociety@logicophilosophicus.org.
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