National Catholic Register: How Plato Turned Socrates’ Death Into a Blueprint for True Learning
insider.si.edu: Plato on the Death of Socrates: Introduction with Readingsfrom the Apology and the Phaedo in Greek & in English translations [sound recording]
Plato on the Death of Socrates: Introduction with Readingsfrom the Apology and the Phaedo in Greek & in English translations [sound recording]
Born in 427 BC, Plato fled Athens in 399 BC after Socrates was executed, blaming democracy and the Peloponnesian War for his teacher's death. An aristocrat and an elitist, much of what we know about ...
On 15 February 399 BC, the philosopher Socrates was condemned to death by a jury of 500 Athenians. He had been charged with failing to honour the official gods of the state and corrupting Athenian ...
Socrates was criminally charged, convicted by a jury, and sentenced to death in 399 B.C. He was accused and found guilty of two crimes: corrupting the youth of Athens by criticizing its democracy and ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Death of Socrates (detail, 1787), Jacques-Louis David - Getty Philosophers are constitutively irritating: this is both their ...
The New York Times: In the ‘Demandingly Joyful Company’ of Socrates and Plato
Re “Higher Education Needs More Socrates and Plato,” by Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Harun Küçük (Opinion guest essay, nytimes.com, May 19): I applaud Professors Emanuel and Küçük and their call for “more ...
Socrates didn’t fear death. Even though he met a gruesome demise (he was executed by the state for the alleged crime of corrupting Athenian youth), Socrates didn’t flee or plead before his executioner ...