1. AIKATERINI LEFKA
Information acquired: 2025
AIKATERINI LEFKA is an academic who published a paper in 2022 entitled Socrates eudaimon at the threshold of Hades (Plato, Phd. 58e-59a). AIKATERINI LEFKA published this work as part of a team: Lefka, Aikaterini. Here is a description of this work: In ,,he beginning of Plato's Phaedo, Socrates is presented as eudaimon, a felicitous man, at the moment he is ready to pass away. This claim, extremely difficult to attribute to any human being, becomes even more astonishing if we consider that, in this particular case, Socrates always kept away from wealth and glorious political functions. He also was in constant conflict with his wife and was going to leave behind three young orphans. Moreover he was condemned to a dishonouring death by drinking hemlock, because he was found guilty of impiety towards the Athenian pantheon, of introduction of new daimonia and of corruption of the city's youth. How can someone be considered happy under these conditions? What does the Socratic eudaimonia at the threshold of Hades consist of? In my paper I shall try to shed some light on this complex question. I propose fir.
