The corpse of the influential politician Anytus, one of the main accusers of the philosopher Socrates, whose ideas are generally believed to have undermined the very foundations of the state, was discovered in Milesia, a fashionable brothel in Athens. There are several suspects - the scandalous comedian Aristophanes, the doctor Diodorus, the son of the late Antemion and the hetaera Neobulus. Everyone has good reasons to want the politician dead. But whoever commits this act, the loser will be the owner of the “Milesia” Aspasia, and her friend the sophist Prodicus cannot allow this - and therefore takes on an investigation that will confront him with the bloody underbelly of the political life of Athens. An unusual historical-crime thriller by a Spanish writer Ignacio Garcia-Valino “The Two Deaths of Socrates” - for the first time in Russian. Notice from the project coordinator Ideas can kill. This is, perhaps, one of the most widespread and dangerous misconceptions of humanity, which has persisted for centuries and continues to bear its bloody fruits to this day. Reflected in the distorting mirrors of mass aberrations, this idea really brought death - no, not even to the “innocent victims” of social and political trends (they were killed, as a rule, by people like them, armed with clubs or machine guns), but to the bearers of ideas themselves. For ideas they went to the cross, to the stake, to the gallows, to the dungeons. It never occurred to anyone that “to seduce a nation, you need the desire of the seduced” (N. Karaev). The crowd is unable to look at itself critically. The crowd is unable to recognize the individual's right to doubt and ask uncomfortable questions. Not to mention the benefits of such an activity. One of the first classic and recorded cases in history of the death of an author for his idea was the case of Socrates: he was accused of “worshipping new deities” and “seducing youth” and was forced to drink poison. Athenian democracy, the rational structure of which Socrates strongly doubted, was not saved by this death, as we see: it was already on its last legs. In fact, the Greek sage died for the right to talk to people. For his long language, therefore, the memory of mankind has canonized Socrates, and even his ideas have come down to us - in the retelling of his disciples. But death still haunts us, and here is another version - from the Spaniard Ignacio Garcia-Valino. Quite speculative - and how could it be twenty-six centuries later - but extremely entertaining. Indeed, since there were students, surely they didn’t try to save the teacher? Garcia-Valinho exercised his right to ask questions, for which his hero once drank hemlock. Maxim Nemtsov, project coordinator