399 BCE
The Trial of Socrates
Athens · Greece · Political · Classical Antiquity
The story
Athens had just lost a long war and endured an oligarchic coup. Socrates' associations with figures from that regime hung over the courtroom even when the charges named only the gods.
Plato's account of the defence turned the verdict into philosophy's founding grievance against the crowd.
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501
citizens
60
votes
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