The Controversy
- Athens was a great city which attracted brilliant thinkers
- visitors form all over the world shared their knowledge of astronomy, medicine, meteorology. literature, philosophy and all things scientific
- this was often at odds with traditional teachings which centered around the Greek gods, which got young people thinking and questioning
The Trial
- Socrates was charged with 2 crimes
- corruption of Athens' youth
- impiety ( not believing in the gods of the state)
His defense:
- "it's my job to be gadfly to the lazy, sluggish horse that is Athens"
- "I should actually be rewarded with free dinner for life"
- a jury of 500 male citizens found him guilty (279-221)
- sentenced to death by drinking poison hemlock
- he had the opportunity to escape, but refused, proving his loyalty to Athenian democracy
idiot- someone who was characterized by self-centeredness and concerned almost exclusively with private as opposed to public affairs.
idiots were born and citizens were made through education
declining to take part in public life such as democratic government of the polis (city state) was considered dishonorable.
- Socrates was charged with 2 crimes
- corruption of Athens' youth
- impiety ( not believing in the gods of the state)
- "it's my job to be gadfly to the lazy, sluggish horse that is Athens"
- "I should actually be rewarded with free dinner for life"
- a jury of 500 male citizens found him guilty (279-221)
- sentenced to death by drinking poison hemlock
- he had the opportunity to escape, but refused, proving his loyalty to Athenian democracy
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