The Trial and Death of Socrates
Plato
Broschiertes Buch

The Trial and Death of Socrates

With 32-page introduction, footnotes and Stephanus references by F.C. Church, translator (Aziloth Books)

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In 399 B.C., Socrates was tried for religious and political crimes: refusing to recognise the gods of Athens, introducing new deities, and corrupting the youth. The verdict was guilty as charged, the penalty - death by poisoning. Despite growing up in Greece's "Golden Age" of liberalism and democracy, Socrates was not a democrat. Influencing young men with his idea that people needed direction from wise men rather than self-government, was likely perceived as a threat to the cherished Athenian republic. Socrates likened himself to a gadfly stinging the "lazy horse" of Athens and did this with ...