Was Socrates really turned on to philosophy due to unrequited desire? This is an erudite guide to the intellectual culture of classical Athens What do we know for sure about Socrates? Perhaps his ...

Socrates was notoriously annoying. He was likened to a gadfly buzzing around while one is trying to sleep. The Oracle of Delphi declared him the wisest of all human beings. His life and death would go ...

Detail from the Chigi vase. Source: Wikimedia Commons/Public domain While discussing philosophy in the public square, Socrates would also have been training as a hoplite, a heavily armed foot soldier ...

They say: “A Greek chorus of four women sings and dances through the life of Socrates: his lovers (male and female), his family life, the battles he fought, and his courtroom trial. The background is ...