LESSON NAME- SOCRATES AUTHOR NAME- RHODA POWER About The Author Rhoda Power is a popular English writer. His writings are in the tradition of H.G. wells, C.E.M. Joad and J.B. Priestly. He has writen on classical, social and general subjects. About The Lesson Socrates lived in Athens. He would go round the town to talk to the people. He told everyone that Athens could become a perfect state, if citizens educated their minds to see what was right and noble, true and beautiful. some people thought that he was leading the young astray. The men, who were governing Athens, summoned him to appear before them and he was condemned to death. He was no coward that he had done nothing wrong. After sun, he was given a cup of poison to drink. With tremendous courage, he lifed the cup to his lips, drank it, and died. Socrates lived in Athens about four hundred years befote Jesus Christ was born. As a boy he was ugly, undersized and had a flat nose ...