Socrates was an ancient Greek philosopher from Classical Athens, born around 470 BC in the deme of Alopece. He was the son of the stonemason Sophroniscus and the midwife Phaenarete, and he served as a hoplite soldier at Potidaea, Amphipolis and Delium. He wrote nothing himself, and what survives comes through his students Plato and Xenophon and through 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 living for a human being. He spent his days in the public places of