With The Death of Socrates, he brought politics into painting, shook up the art scene, and won major admirers ahead of the French Revolution. 1. THE DEATH OF SOCRATES DEPICTED A REAL AND TRULY ...

The series championing influential works of art focuses on Plato's account of the trial and death of Socrates, as Philip Dodd and his guests explore the character of the man that emerges from the ...

Socrates. Sting, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA. If we accept the evidence that Aspasia was, like “Diotima”, an authoritative instructor of eloquence and an expert on matters of love – rather ...