Socrates was born in 469 BC. His father was a stonemason and his mother was a midwife, a profession he would later use to characterize himself, since he would later describe himself as a midwife ...

Shelley was a Socrates lover and produced an excellent translation of the Symposium while on the run in Italy with young Mary Godwin. Every modern philosopher from Kant to Foucault read Plato’s ...

Greek philosopher Socrates birthday has been declared as ... father Sophroniscus was a mason and his mother Phaenerate was a midwife He served as a soldier in the Peloponnesian War He was married ...