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Socrates is also praised for laying the groundwork for all of modern Western society - his principles of logic and philosophy are used to this day.
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Socrates children were born around this time.
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First battle Socrates was in
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Socrates created a school with one of his students known as Plato. This great instituion was called the Academy where they taught anyone who wanted to expand their mind. Socrates used this school to test out his Socratic method of thinking
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Socrates married a young woman named Xanthippe who bore him three sons - Lamprocles. Menexenus and Sophronicus.
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Athenian law declared that all able-bodied men between the ages of 20 and 60 were to serve in the Greek army. Socrates was said to have been a very honourable warrior who fought in a number of extremely important battles. In one of these battles he saved a future war commissioner for Greece.
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As a teenager Socrates worked with his his dad carrying on the family tradition of stonemasonry. It is said that he even worked on the Statue of the Three Graces which stood near the Acropolis until 2 AD. He worked as a stonemason for many years before becoming a philosopher
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Because he wasn't a royal Socrates received a basic Greek education as was the custom at the time. When he was at school Socrates studied the teachings of other philosophers
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Socrates was born in 469 BC on an unknown date in Athens, Greece. He was the son of Sophronicus, an Athenian stone mason and Phaeranete, a midwife. Records state that his family were poor but humble.
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Socrates was sentenced to death, accused of corrupting the youth of Athens. He spoke his death plea (or rather didn't) in front of a jury of 500 people. Some of his students tried to free him but he refused, standing by his cause. He said "The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die and
you to live. Which is better, God only knows".
