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Socrates
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    • Religious scandal and the coup of the oligarchs
    • The perceived fragility of Athenian democracy
    • The Athenian ideal of free speech
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  • The public’s hatred of Socrates
    • The impression created by Aristophanes
    • The human resistance to self-reflection
    • Socrates’ criticism of democracy
  • The charge of impiety
    • Socrates’ radical reconception of piety
    • The danger posed by Socrates
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Marble bust of Alexander the Great, in the British Museum, London, England. Hellenistic Greek, 2nd-1st century BC. Said to be from Alexandria, Egypt. Height: 37 cm.
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Portrait of Plato (ca. 428- ca. 348 BC), Ancient Greek philosopher.
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    The unexamined life is not worth living.Socrates
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