The trial and execution of Socrates in Athens in 399 B.C.E. puzzles historians.
Why, in a society enjoying more freedom and democracy than any the world
had ever seen, would a seventy-year-old philosopher be put to death for what
he was teaching?
What could Socrates have said or done than prompted a jury of 500 Athenians
to send him to his death just a few years before he would have died naturally?
