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Socrates

4th Century Greece and Rome

Socrates was one of the most famous Greek philosophers whose teaching Plato reported in his dialogues.
Socrates

Socrates

Alun Salt
Socrates (c. 470–399 B.C.), who was also a soldier during the Peloponnesian War and a stonemason after, was renowned as a philosopher and educator. In the end, he was accused of corrupting Athens' youth and for impiety, for which reasons he was executed in the Greek manner -- by drinking poisonous hemlock.
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