After Socrates had been found guilty of impiety and corrupting the morals of the city's youth, he was next invited to propose a suitable punishment. This was a legal tradition in Athens and an ...

During Socrates' youth Athens was a city at the height of its power and the intellectual center of the Greek world. The spirit of openness which democracy encouraged had given rise to new fields ...

With his mentor Socrates, and student Aristotle, he laid down the foundations of Western philosopher and science. The Academy once sat on the outskirts of Athens on property Plato acquired in 387 ...

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