Marielle Galang

Socrates

  BIOGRAPHY                Socrates is a Greek Athenian philosopher.He was born circa470 BC in Athens,Greece.We know of his life through the writings of Plato and Xenophon.When he has born his life was chronicled through only a few sources through the dialogues and plays of Aristophanes. His father is an Athenian stone mason sculptor and Phaenarete who named Sophronicus. Because Socrates is not from a noble family he learned his father’s craft at a younge age. He worked as a mason before he devoted his life to philosophy. And one of his philosophy was “I only know that I know nothing”.After years, Socrates married a younger woman who named Xanthipped and bore him three sons who named Lamprocles, Sophronicus, and Menexenus. Based on Xenophon’s characterization of Xanthippe, she was not happy with Socrates’ second profession and complained that he wasn’t supporting family as a philosopher. He served in the a...