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Socrates
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From: Who's Who in the Classical World
Date: 20000101
Author:SIMON HORNBLOWER and TONY SPAWFORTH
Socrates
(469–399 BC), Athenian public figure and central participant in the intellectual debates so common in the city in the middle and late 5th cent. His influence has been enormous, although he himself wrote nothing.Socrates' philosophy and personality reached a broad ancient audience mainly through the dialogues a number of his associates wrote with him as protagonist. These were numerous and popular enough for Aristotle to classify them in the Poetics as a species of fiction in their own right. But apart from the works of Plato , only a few fragments survive of the ...
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