The People Profiles. Socrates - The Man Who Knew Too Much Documentary. Posted: November 26, 2024 | Last updated: June 15, 2025 ...

From Plato’s admiration to Aristophanes’ mockery, this animated explainer uncovers who Socrates really was, if he existed at all.

Every schoolboy knows that Socrates was an influential Greek educator who was condemned to drink hemlock for "corrupting" Athens' youth. For 2,300 years Socrates has been pictured, on ...

Socrates was remarkably full-blooded for an ascetic philosopher. In Xenophon’s Symposium, he says, “For myself I cannot name the time at which I have not been in love with someone.” By all ...

Socrates, while on trial for his life, presented himself as a man who was willing to live in relative poverty and risk making powerful enemies in order to pursue his philosophical mission.

Socrates was remarkably full-blooded for an ascetic philosopher. In Xenophon’s Symposium, he says, “For myself I cannot name the time at which I have not been in love with someone.” By all ...