In the year 399 BC, seventy years after he was born, Socrates was brought before the Athenian court on charges of impiety and corrupting the city's youth. His belief that the gods must be good or ...

Socrates' character changes from a man to a woman, from young to old, from human to animal. But the common thread to all twenty-three scenes is the search for truth, regardless of the price that ...

Unfortunately, it also seems to me that Stone is wrong: wrong about Socrates, wrong about Athenian democracy, and wrong about what kind of democracy is best. Stone wrote his book to answer the ...

Yet at his trial, Socrates provided a logical proof of his belief in the local gods (Plato, 1914 ed.); new gods were introduced all the time in Athens (Hughes, 2011); and all Socrates had really ...

Law & Society Review, Vol. 56, Issue. 4, p. 601. From the trial of Socrates to the post-9/11 military commissions, trials have always been useful instruments of politics. Yet there is still much that ...

Here are 20 of the strangest, most scandalous, or most significant trials in history. In 399 BCE, the 70-year-old Greek philosopher Socrates was tried by a jury of 500 and executed. Historians ...

Cooper, Laurence D. 2012. Every Man a Socrates? Tocqueville and the Conceit of Modernity. American Political Thought, Vol. 1, Issue. 2, p. 208. Morris, Thomas F. 2014 ...

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from the trial of Socrates in Athens to the famous show trials in the 1930s Stalinist Soviet Union, curious to see if I could find historical precedent for this trial. The closest precedent is ...