Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling. At Socrates’ trial, Athenians seethed with anger and jealous rage. He had questioned Pericles’s Golden Age of Athens. Along with criticizing Athenian lifestyles, ideals, values, and even the gods, Socrates questioned Pericles’s limited democracy and Athens’ wealth and greatness. How dare Socrates criticize “Athens standing out among Greek city-states and how its administration favored the many instead of the few?” How dare Socrates question Athens’ constitution and Athenians understanding and toleration, since they “threw open their city to the world, and never by alien acts excluded foreigners from any opportunity of learning or observing,…
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