movie

• Socrates
• man who was extremely ugly
• barefoot, dirty robe
• did not care of appearance 
• only interested in the mind
• leader of revolution in thinking
• gathering strength across the Greek world
• begun far to the east of Greece
• knowledge and study had been spreading until it reached modern day turkey
• Greeks took knowledge and transformed it, God into reason
• Socrates spent his days walking and talking and debating withe everyone he met 
• Socrates said you need to make every decision based on what you think is good and bad
• The unexamined life is not worth living
• plague devastated Athens
• Paraclese died 421 BC
• Athenian democracy showed potential to slide into mob rule 
• After Paraclese, all the other people weren't as good
• Ships prepared vessels for sea
• mighty evasion force set out for Sisely
• Six months later, campaign needed reenforcement
• then no news at all
• Leaders argued with each other for strategy
• they rushed into it
• Sicilian campaign  was a mess
• Manpower through fleet construction 
• Athenians began to starve
• Turned to their patron Goddess, Athena 
• Athens was now home to population ravished by plague and war
• Lysander dismantled Athenian fleet and wall, 
• only 12 ships allowed to remain
• One more act of vanity and violence before Athenians could get better again
• Searched for an enemy within city walls
• searched for Socrates
• Around him he gained a group of young followers
• They thought this undermined and corrupted the youth
• Put him to trial
• Athens central market place
• under a canopy
• tried by a jury of fellow citizens 
• Socrates given a limited time to defend himself
• Shows no fear
• extremely stubborn
• Doing what he thinks is the right thing to do
• "The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being"
• if Socrates apologized, he might have been let go
• but he demands free dinners for all the work he's done
• Socrates reaction calmly when put to death
• "Well now it is time to be off, I to die and you to live, but which of us has the happier prospect is unknown to anyone but heaven"
• Took to prison 
• still exists
• still trace the layout of the cell Socrates was probably held
• Socrates would be executed by drinking hemlock 
• death by hemlock is extremely painful
• But as the moment of his execution got closer, he treated it as if it were noting at all
• He died for the sake of his principle
• Socrates in his life and death became a completely new Greek hero
• The vision of a martial warrior hero
• driven them to conquer great people and make a mighty empire
• Athens was never again a great imperial power
• but it never went into mob rule
• became intellectual inquiry 

finally Finished the movie