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Why Did Athens Wait So Long To Put Socrates On Trial?
“Athens, birthplace of democracy, executed the philosopher Socrates in the year 399 bce for the crime of impiety” (Nails 27) Why did Athens wait so long to put Socrates on trial? In order to explore my topic and try to answer my question, I began reading three scholarly sources, which gave me a better understanding on why he could of been put to trial. It still raises the same question as to what really happened and why was Socrates sent to trial at such a late age in life. Socrates throughout his life has been teaching in Athens unbothered until he was sent to trial at the age of seventy.
One area of interest is how Socrates was put to trial because he was corrupting the youth. They don’t have evidence, but with some research they seem to mention how people hold Socrates accountable for Critias and Alcibiades …show more content…
“The prime movers in both of the anti-democratic movements were former pupils of Socrates, Alcibiades and Critias.” (Linder 2002) Though Socrates wasn’t intentionally trying to corrupt people with his philosophical ideas, he probably made
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