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Socrates' Trial: The Death of a Gadfly
Socrates was sentenced to death in 399 BCE, but why did Athens turn on its most famous philosopher? This episode unpacks the political and religious charges against him — impiety and corrupting the youth — and the decades of resentment that led to his trial. We explore the role of the Three Accusers: Meletus, Anytus, and Lycon, and how the restored democracy after the Thirty Tyrants targeted Socrates as a scapegoat for its past traumas. The Delphic Oracle's declaration that no one was wiser than Socrates, the comic lampoons of Aristophanes in The Clouds, and Socrates' own daimonion…
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