Books by Bettany Hughes

A vivid history of the ancient goddess Venus by the bestselling historian and broadcaster Bettany Hughes

A biography of one of the world's greatest cities - Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul

For seventy years Socrates was a vigorous citizen of Golden Age Athens, philosophising in the squares and public arenas rather than in the courts of kings, before his beloved city turned on him, condemning him to death by poison. Socrates lived in and contributed to a city that nurtured key ingredients of contemporary civilisation.