In 399 BCE, Athens put one of its greatest thinkers, Socrates, on trial. The charges? Corrupting the youth and disrespecting ...

As the hour drew near, everyone in the room broke down and wept except for Socrates himself, who continued to treat the affair as if it were nothing at all, at one point turning to them and saying ...

World History Moment: The Death of Socrates He died by drinking hemlock, after being found guilty by jury of 500 citizens. Historian John Schmidt recalls why the jury found him guilty of ...

In the year 399 BC, seventy years after he was born, Socrates was brought before the Athenian court on charges of impiety and corrupting the city's youth. His belief that the gods must be good or ...

After Socrates had been found guilty of impiety ... he responded with an answer that was nothing short of a death wish. He argued that he should receive the highest honors of the city and be ...

Unlike his teacher, he did not believe the soul survived death in individual form, but thought it became part of a greater collective whole. In political and everyday life he rejected Plato's ...

The Tollund Man, Denmark’s most famous bog body, has been precisely dated for the first time, revealing that he lived and died around the same period as the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates.

Socrates was born in 469 BC. His father was a stonemason and his mother was a midwife, a profession he would later use to characterize himself, since he would later describe himself as a midwife ...

This is the story of the first martyr of free speech Socrates is on trial for his life He will be put to death 2500 years later we remember his words ...