Socrates was an ancient Greek philosopher from Classical Athens, born around 470 BC in the deme of Alopece. He was the son of a stonemason, Sophroniscus, and a midwife, Phaenarete. He wrote nothing himself, and what we know of him comes mainly through his student Plato, the writer Xenophon, and the comedies of Aristophanes.

He is known for the Socratic method of question and answer and for the claim that the unexamined life is not worth