>>18448398
There is more to Socrates’ execution than this. Socrates had a number of followers who became leaders of the so-called “Thirty Tyrants”, a puppet government installed in Athens by Sparta after their defeat in the Peloponnesian War. This was an extremely bloody and chaotic period in Athenian politics, with thousands of people being executed by the new government and their property confiscated. The Thirty Tyrants would later be overthrown and democracy restored in Athens, and it was this democratic government which ultimately put Socrates on trial.

Socrates’ main crime was ‘corrupting the youth’, and this charge was almost certainly in regards to Socrates’ close relationship with his student Critias, one of those aforementioned tyrants. It is also notable that whenever Plato mentions Critias in his writings, it’s always to show Critias as bloodthirsty and Socrates and trying to remain righteous, frankly in my opinion a bit of after-the-fact revisionism by Plato trying to show Socrates as the good and noble teacher and Critias as the bad and immoral student, and in effect distancing Socrates from any responsibility for Critias’ actions.

>>18448398
He was a totalitarian cockmongler undermining the Athenian pederast institution. They should have hemlock'd Plato too and saved the west.

Athens deserved worse

>>18448401
Critias did nothing wrong

>>18448421
You are gay

>>18448421
>Athenian pederast institution
More like Apollonian
Athen/a is more of a lolicon I think *retches*

>>18448401
Reminder that Critias was a patriot

>>18449524
>usa lingo
Isnt the USA kinda like Athens in a way?

Trolling had a lot more serious consequences when you had to do it face to face.

>>18448398
If ragebaiting is your power then what are you without it

>>18448398
>runs a "school" full of guys who try to overthrow the government

>>18449697
>Isnt the USA kinda like Athens in a way?
Was.
Slaves, foreigners and women couldn't vote and be elected in Athens