Socrates is guilty of not believing in the gods in which the city believes, and of introducing other new gods. He is also guilty of corrupting the youth. The penalty proposed is death.

281 votes for guilty, 220 not guilty.

361 for death, 140 against.

Terms:

Apology, from apologia, explanation or defense. It is not an admission of error.

Daimon: the invisible spirit from whom Socrates claims to receive inspiration. Hence "Demon."

c.467: Socrates born.

423: Comic playwright Aristophanes lampoons Socrates in The Clouds.

411-367: Xenophon’s Hellenica main narrative source for political history.

404: Peloponnesian War ends with Athens’ surrender. Spartan troops install oligarchic regime of the "Thirty Tyrants."

403: Overthrow of Critias and the Thirty, reestablishment of democracy. General amnesty proclaimed.

399: Socrates indicted, put on trial, executed.

427-348: Plato.

387: Plato founds Academy.

377: Plato writes Republic.

384-322: Aristotle.