![]() Instead of being a warning from history, he argues, it is an example of just how different Ancient Greek politics often were. Athens, it is argued, rid itself of one of its greatest thinkers because he was a perceived threat to the political status quo.īut in a new study launched today (Monday, June 8th), Cambridge University classicist Professor Paul Cartledge claims that, rather than being a farce, Socrates’ trial was legally just and that he was guilty as charged. Politicians and historians have often used the trial to show how democracy can go rotten by descending into mob rule. He was found guilty of “impiety” and “corrupting the young”, sentenced to death, and then required to carry out his own execution by consuming a deadly potion of the poisonous plant hemlock. ![]() Ever since it occurred in 399BC, the trial of the Athenian philosopher Socrates has been portrayed as a travesty in which the founding father of Western thought was made to face trumped-up charges invented by his ignorant and prejudiced fellow-citizens. ![]()
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