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Today we once again continued to watch "The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization". In today's viewing, we learned the Sparta had eventually won the Peloponnesian War, after years of fighting and Athens eventually being destroyed and the Plague. Humiliated by the Spartans, and with a destroyed city-state, the Athenian people looked for someone to blame the loss of the war on. That person happened to be Socrates.
Socrates was arrested for undermining the state religion and corrupting the youth of Athens.
While Socrates had a chance to prove himself not guilty, he spent it by telling the Athenian people that what he had done was good. He said that the teachings and questions he told to people made others think for themselves, and to think twice about the world around them. He had said that...

***The unexamined life is not worth living ***

Another interesting thing he had said was that the Athenian people should be thanking him for all of the work he has done for them, and that as a reward he should be served free dinners for the rest of his life. Surprisingly, the vote was very close. Socrates was only found guilty by 30 or so votes. He was sentenced to death by drinking hemlock. Even his friend broke in to his cell, and tried to convince him to break out with them. But Socrates insisted that this was a democratic vote, and that his sentence shall stand.