After his defence, recorded by his students Plato and Xenophon, Socrates was sentenced to death for his crimes; however, many primary source accounts encourage a secondary, insidious reason for why Socrates was really executed. In Plato's Apology, his version of the speech given by his scholar Socrates in defence for himself during his trail, Socrates denied the self-proposed false charges against him and accused the jurors of unfair judgement because of their prejudice and personal grudge against him and his philosophical ideas. ... The opposing views of multiple scholars from dramatical...

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