Hello and welcome to classical stuff you should know classical podcast put on by classical

educators. My name is Thomas Magby and I'm joined as always by Mr. A.J. Hanenberg. That's me.

And Mr. Graham Donaldson. Hello. Hello. Hello. Welcome to...

I'm now I'm super self-conscious about how I greet myself. Oh, really? I mean it is a bad thing. Oh, okay. Hello. Graham, you are, um, you have our topic for the day.

That's right, boys. Today, we are going to learn about a very classical dude, somebody who you could say

started it all, well, at least for philosophy. Today we're learning about

Socrates. Who is Socrates? What's the deal with Socrates? What are the books that Socrates

wrote? Spoilers, none. And why do we as classical people need to know about Socrates? And is philosophy

just all there is to the classical world or is there like a war going on between

classics and mythos? I know we talked about some of these things before.

This is going to be a three hour discussion? It's not going to be that. Yeah, this is starting

to sound like a long podcast. But Socrates is an important dude. Yeah. So let's talk a little bit

about who he was. Socrates was a Greek philosopher, roughly around, they traced his years back to, he was born

about 470 BC before Christ or B.C. before common era, for you moderns out there.

And then he died in 399 BC.

And he died because he was put on trial and he was tried guilty for a number of crimes.

Corrupting the youth.

Corrupting the youth and atheism were his two crimes.

And his sentence was death and he had to drink poison he

had to drink hemlock and he killed himself um i mean he was forced to do it by the courts so it was

it was suicide i don't know probably i don't think you would call it that but he was forced to kill

himself uh by drinking poison because the courts thought of

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