Classical Studies 2301A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Cronus, Epistates, Thersites
24 Apr 2014
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Socrates disagreed with this, as this was illegal because athenians had a right to individual trials: but he was overruled, and the assembly agreed to execute the generals. In 399, socrates was tried for and convicted of introducing new gods and corrupting young men (religious offences, thus may have been brought about as a case by his political enemies as revenge). He proposed that as a penalty he should be given free meals at state expense, or maybe that he should have to pay a fine. The five things: title, we are reading the gorgias. Note that the definite article is not capitalized or italicized: gorgias was a sophist from leontini who lived from about 485 to about 380 bce. I mean, i shouldn"t think it"s possible for him to get so many people to understand such important matters in such a short time.
