Our sources tell us that after returning from his trip to southern Italy and Sicily, Plato purchased a plot of…
Meanwhile in Greece, the Pax Spartica was falling apart. At the end of the Peloponnesian War, the Peloponnesian League…
For the third time in his life, Socrates had done what he saw as his duty in the public…
When the trial was over, the jurors stood up by rows and went to the “lampstand” where…
Now Socrates turns the tables. Reminding the jurors of his endorsement by the Oracle at…
The trial took place on the 7th of Munychiōn (the tenth lunar month of the Athenian…
Meletus accused Socrates, as historical sources agree, of impiety and corrupting the…
The legal system in Athens was democratic in a way never previously seen. There was no district attorney…
The restored democracy set about remaking the government and reestablishing a rule of law. One of…
Back behind the walls of the city, the Three Thousand bickered among themselves about what they should do. But the…