Actually, Netanyahu would do well to read Plato, to learn about democracy and the rule of law, and to stand trial and accept ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Perhaps only this: Socrates criticized the arrogant self-assertion of his culture’s influencers, and they brought him to trial, which concluded in his death sentence. Socrates taught that being ...

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.

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 ...