- 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
