Socrates Collection

Platos Cave Allegory
In Platos Republic Socrates likens mankind to prisoners in a cave who see only the shadows of reality, and the philosophers to those who have been given a glimpse of it

Science Allegorised
Philosophy enthroned, surrounded by the sciences - Grammar, Rhetoric, Linguistics, Music, Arithmetic, Geometry and Astronomy, with Socrates and Plato and scholars writing

Socrates (Day)
SOCRATES Athenian philosopher

Socrates (c 469399 BC). Classical Greek Athenian philosophe
Socrates (c.469-399 BC). Classical Greek Athenian philosopher. Bust. Found at Piazza Venezia. 1st. century. Pentelic marble. Palazzo Massimo. National Roman Museum. Rome. Italy

Plato / Uffizi Bust
PLATO aka Aristocles Greek philosopher, disciple of Socrates, teacher of Aristotle

Socrates & Xanthippe (1)
SOCRATES with his wife Xanthippe, a notorious shrew

Aristippus of Cyrene
ARISTIPPUS OF CYRENE Greek philosopher, studied under Socrates, founded hedonist school advocating the (prudent) pursuit of pleasure

Socrates
SOCRATES (470 - 399 BC) Greek philosopher

Socrates (Bonneville)
SOCRATES Athenian philosopher

SOCRATES (470 - 399 BC)
SOCRATES Greek philosopher

Socrates (Anon)
SOCRATES Athenian philosopher

Socrates / Hemlock / Anon
SOCRATES Greek philosopher taking hemlock

Socrates / Hemlock / Manceau
SOCRATES Greek philosopher taking hemlock

Prison of Socrates, Athens, Greece, early 1900s

Greek art. Grave relief of Mnesarete. About 380 BC. Glyptoth
Greek art. Grave relief of Mnesarete. About 380 BC. The dead woman is seated in front of a sorrowing girl. The name is recorded on the pediment Mnesarete (daughter) of Socrates. Glyptothek. Munich

Socrates (c 469399 BC). Classical Greek Athenian philosophe
Socrates (c.469-399 BC). Classical Greek Athenian philosopher. Socrates in prison before being sentenced to death. Colored engraving

William Julius Mickle 1735 1788 Scottish Writer
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Socrates last drink
Socrates (470 - 399 BC) drinks the hemlock, knowing it will be his last drink

Exterior of the Prison of Socrates, Athens Date: 1901

Reconstruction of the House of Socrates (469-399 BC), Greek philosopher. Ephesus Museum. Selcuk. Turkey

Marble statue of a greek philosopher. Probably Socrates
Greek Art. Greece. Marble statue of a greek philosopher. Probably Socrates. c. 4th century BC. Dephi Archaeological Museum

Alcibiades, Bust, Profile
ALCIBIADES Athenian general; though a friend of Socrates, he was dissolute in private and a traitor in his public life; assassinated by the Persians

Socrates in an Athens street
A depiction of the philosopher Socrates walking through the streets of ancient Athens

Socrates - classical Greek (Athenian) philosopher
Socrates (470-399 BC) - classical Greek (Athenian) philosopher. Socrates had been found guilty of both corrupting the minds of the youth of Athens and of impiety

Moses Mendelssohn
MOSES MENDELSSOHN German philosopher - ranked with Socrates, at any rate in the estimation of this artist! Date: 1729 - 1786

Jacob Kleinjogg - 2
KACOB KLEINJOGG Swiss peasant farmer whose shrewd methods earned him the title of The Rustic Socrates and the praise of many, including Benjamin Franklin. Date: EARLY 18TH CENTURY

Jacob Kleinjogg - 1
KACOB KLEINJOGG Swiss peasant farmer whose shrewd methods earned him the title of The Rustic Socrates and the praise of many, including Benjamin Franklin. Date: EARLY 18TH CENTURY

PORTUGAL. Lisbon. US President Barack Obama (2ndL) waves as he poses with (FromL) EU Council President Herman Von Rompuy, EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso

PORTUGAL. Lisbon. Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates attends a Meeting on Afghanistan on November 20, 2010 in Lisbon

SOCRATES (470-399 BC); ARISTOPHANES (445-380 BC). Greek poet and comediograph. Play where Socrates and the sophists

The hemlock cup of the Republican Socrates. Illustration shows the Republican elephant labeled GOP. about to drink from a cup labeled Reciprocity, with him are several men labeled Root, Sherman

Aspasia (Sculpture)
ASPASIA Greek adventuress and consort of the Athenian statesman Pericles, said to have taught rhetoric and to have conversed with Socrates

Socrates & Alcibiades
SOCRATES Athenian philosopher, reproaching the young Alcibiades for his dissolute lifestyle

Socrates (Figuier)
SOCRATES Athenian philosopher

Socrates (Visconti)
SOCRATES Athenian philosopher

Socrates (Gucht)
SOCRATES Athenian philosopher

ALCIBIADES (450 - 404 BC
ALCIBIADES Athenian general; though a friend of Socrates, he was dissolute in private and a traitor in his public life; assassinated by the Persians

Socrates, Greek philosopher of Athens
Socrates, Classical Greek philosopher of Athens, one of the founders of Western philosophy

Eight heads of Socrates, Classical Greek philosopher of Athens, one of the founders of Western philosophy

Socrates / Thevet / 1584
SOCRATES Greek philosopher

Socrates & Xanthippe (2)
SOCRATES with his wife Xanthippe, a notorious shrew

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