1. Socrates
... the shackles of life for his last wish was for Crito to sacrifice a rooster to Asclepius. This god was normally given sacrifices to free the sickly from the grips of a virus or illness. Before his execution Socrates made a powerful statement which touched many of the men in the court room part of this statement was; "What would not a man ... give if he might converse with Orpheus and Musaeus and Hesiod and Homer? Nay, if this be true, let me die again and again . . .. Above all, I shall be able to continue ... out of death. I in some ways agree with Socrates and that you should fight ...
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- Grade Level: High School