It takes the average reader 8 hours and 11 minutes to read The Hemlock Cup by Bettany Hughes
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
From the celebrated British author and historian: a dazzling new book in which she combines historical inquiry and storytelling élan to give us a brilliantly vivid portrait of Socrates and of the Golden Age of Athens. Socrates’ life spanned “seventy of the busiest, most wonderful and tragic years in Athenian history,” and Bettany Hughes re-creates this fifth-century B.C. city, drawing on the latest sources—archaeological, topographical, and textual—to illuminate the streets where Socrates walked, to place him there, to show us his life as he lived and experienced it. She takes us through the...
The Hemlock Cup by Bettany Hughes is 484 pages long, and a total of 122,936 words.
This makes it 163% the length of the average book. It also has 150% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 11 hours and 11 minutes to read The Hemlock Cup aloud.
The Hemlock Cup is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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