Invitation of Hemlock

Abstract

This is the first history based novel of writer and diplomat Sujan Debnath. The foremost personality of this book is the great philosopher Socrates of antique Greece, who forfeited his whole lifespan to free humanity with the ‘Love of knowledge’. Readers may hardly find it difficult that who is missing in this novel from ancient golden era of Greece? Father of medicine, Hippocrates; father of history, Herodotus; great masters of tragedy like Euripides, Sophocles and Aristophanes, renown sculptor Phidias, distinctive architects like Plato, Phaedo, Crito etc.