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THE ATLAS OF THE CAVE AND THE SUN

Athens executes Socrates

399 BCE
nature
Tried for impiety and corrupting the young, convicted by a narrow majority, and — after refusing to propose a serious alternative penalty — sentenced to death and given hemlock. Plato was about twenty-eight.

The event under 517a. Everything in the cave about what happens to a returning liberator is written by someone for whom this was not hypothetical.
rhymes with
sephirahgevurah
whyA city's judgment, and the founding wound of Western philosophy.
tags
399 bce · trial · hemlock · athens
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