It is an important historical and biographical fact that Plato started out writing his…
Plato’s Socrates (as the student portrays his master in his early or Socratic…
“Sons of Ariston, divine offspring of an illustrious man!” exclaims Socrates at the end of a…
This brings us to Socrates’ own finances. We see Socrates behaving as a man of leisure, spending his time conversing…
Socrates’ eldest son was Lamprocles, whom we meet in Xenophon’s dialogues. The boy is upset with his mother. Socrates asks…
The world in which Socrates grew up was born in 480 BC, a mere eleven years before Socrates’ birth. The city whose duties and…
On that fateful day, one group of partisans demanded justice that was long overdue for a malefactor. Another group declared…
On the seventh of Munychion in the year that Laches was the archon of record [399 BC], the infamous trial took place…