He was born in 470 BCE in Athens, Greece. His life was chronicled through only a few sources- the dialogues of Plato, Xenophon and the plays of Aristophanes. .
2. His parents where Sophroniscus, an Athenian stonemason and sculptor, and Phaenarete, a midwife. .
3. He wasn't from a noble family and probably received a basic Greek education and learned his father's craft at a young age. .
4. He married Xanthippe-"undesirable " and bore him three sons -Lamprocles, Sophroniscus and Menexenus.
5. Socrates' physical appearance according to Plato's Symposium- Short, stocky, snub nose and bulging eyes. (some writings are the opposite).
6. His own light brought to him in prison and there he drank hemlock poison at the age of 71.
7. Born in 470 BCE which was the time when Persia was defeated and Athens reached a level of unprecedented power and splendor. ".
8. He was 37 years old when the Peloponnesian War broke out and he was a braved man who fought fearlessly in the war at that time Athens was going through a dramatic transition from hegemony in the classical world to its decline after a humiliating defeat by Sparta in the Peloponnesian War. Athenians entered a period of instability and doubt about their identity and place in the world. As a result, they clung to past glories, notions of wealth, and a fixation with physical beauty. Socrates attacked these values with his insistent emphasis on the greater importance of the mind. While many Athenians admired Socrates' challenges to Greek conventional wisdom and the humorous way he went about it, an equal number grew angry and felt he threatened their way of life and uncertain future. .
9. In the event that urged more questions about human nature, truth and goodness confirmed his mission as a moral philosopher.
10. He was named as the wisest man by the Oracle of Delphi. He searched for people that could be wiser that him, but none was.
11. He didn't lecture about what he knew, but instead he considered himself as ignorant but wise because he recognized his own ignorance.
