{"slug": "socrates", "label": "Socrates", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q913", "qid": "Q913", "description": "5th-century BCE Greek philosopher", "entries": 10, "years": 9, "span": [-469, -249], "span_label": ["470 BCE", "250 BCE"], "topics": [{"title": "Deaths", "count": 4}, {"title": "Births", "count": 2}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 2}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "athens", "label": "Athens", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "ancient-greece", "label": "Ancient Greece", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "plato", "label": "Plato", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "megara", "label": "Megara", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "alcibiades", "label": "Alcibiades", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "egypt", "label": "Egypt", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "syracuse-sicily", "label": "Syracuse, Sicily", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "dionysius-i-of-syracuse", "label": "Dionysius I of Syracuse", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "sparta", "label": "Sparta", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "thebes-greece", "label": "Thebes, Greece", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "boeotia", "label": "Boeotia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "aristophanes", "label": "Aristophanes", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -469, "year_label": "470 BCE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Socrates, Greek philosopher (d. c. 399 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350129358#Births", "title": "470 BC", "revid": 1350129358, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": -468, "year_label": "469 BCE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Socrates, Athenian philosopher (approximate date) (d. 399 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350129352#Births", "title": "469 BC", "revid": 1350129352, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": -423, "year_label": "424 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Demosthenes and Hippocrates attempt to capture Megara, but they are defeated by the Spartans under their general Brasidas. Demosthenes then marches to Naupactus to assist in a democratic revolution, and to gather troops for an invasion of Boeotia. However, Demosthenes and Hippocrates are unable to coordinate their attacks and Hippocrates is defeated at the Battle of Delium by Pagondas of Thebes. During the battle, Socrates is said to have saved the life of Alcibiades. Demosthenes attacks Sicyon and is defeated as well.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1231841566#Greece", "title": "424 BC", "revid": 1231841566, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -415, "year_label": "416 BCE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Agathon along with Alcibiades and Socrates and Aristophanes and others attend a symposium described by Plato.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1292484682#Drama", "title": "416 BC", "revid": 1292484682, "section": "Events › By topic › Drama"}}, {"year": -398, "year_label": "399 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Socrates, Greek philosopher (b. c. 470 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1262065705#Deaths", "title": "399 BC", "revid": 1262065705, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": -398, "year_label": "399 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "February 15", "text": "February 15 – The Greek philosopher Socrates is sentenced to death by Athenian authorities, condemned for impiety and the corruption of youth. He refuses to flee into exile and dies by drinking hemlock.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1262065705#Greece", "title": "399 BC", "revid": 1262065705, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -395, "year_label": "396 BCE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Plato publishes his Apologia, which is a defence of his mentor Socrates. (Approximate date.)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1306223289#Literature", "title": "396 BC", "revid": 1306223289, "section": "Events › By topic › Literature"}}, {"year": -387, "year_label": "388 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Plato, having left Athens on Socrates' death to visit Megara and possibly Egypt, travels to Syracuse at the invitation of Dionysius I's brother-in-law Dion.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1210249612#Art", "title": "388 BC", "revid": 1210249612, "section": "Events › By topic › Art"}}, {"year": -353, "year_label": "354 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Xenophon, Greek historian, soldier, mercenary and an admirer of Socrates (b. c. 431 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1291610084#Deaths", "title": "354 BC", "revid": 1291610084, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": -249, "year_label": "250 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Timaeus, Greek historian who has studied rhetoric under a pupil of Socrates (b. c. 345 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1278897656#Deaths", "title": "250 BC", "revid": 1278897656, "section": "Deaths"}}]}