Our history is full of crazy irrational events.. It is our legacy..!
On this day in 399 BCE, Socrates at age 71 - considered the father of western philosophy- is sentenced to death by the city of Athens for "refusing to recognize the Olympian gods recognized by the state" and of "corrupting the youth."
Athenian law prescribed death by drinking poison hemlock.
The philosopher was taken to the nearby jail where some friends offered to bribe the guards and rescue him so he could flee into exile but he refused.
He wrote nothing himself, so all that is known about him is, mostly, by his student Plato.
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