Taking place in 399 BC, Socrates, regarded as the wisest man in the world by Chaerephon, the Oracle of Delphi, was put on trial by the Ancient Athenian state for corrupting the youth and impiety. 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 agains...

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