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POLIS: The Trial of Socrates is a three-part historical graphic novel tells the story of how one of the greatest free thinkers in the ancient world was executed by the era's most democratic city. It also how his student Plato transformed from an aristocratic politician into the founder of Western philosophy.
Chapter 1, The Restoration: Defeated by Sparta in the Peloponnesian war, the Athenian democracy has been toppled and replaced by a puppet government known to history as The Thirty Tyrants. Socrates clashes with the unofficial leader of the tyrants, Critias. The latter happens to be the older cousin of Aristocles, or as we know him, Plato.
The chapter comes to a climax when the exiled democratic forces invade Athens and attempt to oust the false government. Socrates risks the battlefield to find a young friend drafted into the army, but in doing so he makes a powerful enemy. In the end, the democracy is restored, and the stage is set for the case against Socrates.
Vividly illustrated and steeped in historical detail, POLIS: The Restoration opens the trilogy with a bang.
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