A new musical is coming to Milwaukee telling the story of Sokrates. Hellenika: The Musical is set in the golden age of Athens. Milwaukee Native Kyle Thomas Hanneken is the composer, ...
Socrates’ method was to clear his students’ minds of abstractions and assumptions, so that they might attain self-knowledge and learn the practical wisdom of living well. His pupil Plato, however, ...
In 399 B.C., a jury of 500 fellow Athenians convicted Socrates of impiety and corrupting the young, and then affirmed the prosecution’s recommendation of a death sentence. Refusing his friends’ ...