Socratic Athens: The Career, Trial, and Execution of Socrates (c. 470–399 BCE)

1. Approximate birth of Socrates in Athens

   Jan 1, 470 BCELabels: Socrates, Alopece

   • Britannica
   • LibertyFund

2. Military service at Potidaea during war

   Jan 1, 432 BCELabels: Socrates, Potidaea

   • SCU Scholar
   • Potidaea

3. Military service at the Battle of Delium

   Jan 1, 424 BCELabels: Socrates, Battle of

   • SCU Scholar
   • Delium

4. Aristophanes satirizes Socrates in *Clouds*

   Jan 1, 423 BCELabels: Aristophanes, Clouds

   • Britannica
   • UCL Guide

5. Military service connected with Amphipolis campaign

   Jan 1, 422 BCELabels: Socrates, Amphipolis

   • SCU Scholar
   • Amphipolis

6. Socrates serves on Council prytany during Arginusae crisis

   Jan 1, 406 BCELabels: Socrates, Council prytany

   • Arginusae
   • LacusCurtius

7. Refusal to arrest Leon under the Thirty Tyrants

   Jan 1, 404 BCELabels: Socrates, Thirty Tyrants

   • LacusCurtius
   • Apology

8. Indictment of Socrates on impiety and corruption charges

   Jan 1, 399 BCELabels: Socrates, Meletus

   • Trial
   • Apology

9. Socrates delivers defense speech in Plato’s *Apology*

   Jan 1, 399 BCELabels: Socrates, Plato's Apology

   • Apology
   • Loeb Intro

10. Verdict and death sentence by Athenian jury

    Jan 1, 399 BCELabels: Athenian jury, Death sentence

    • Trial
    • Anytus

11. Imprisonment and refusal of escape in *Crito* tradition

    Jan 1, 399 BCELabels: Plato's Crito, Socrates

    • Crito
    • Trial

12. Execution of Socrates by drinking poison

    Jan 1, 399 BCELabels: Execution, Hemlock

    • Trial
    • Phaedo

13. Plato founds the Academy in Athens

    Jan 1, 387 BCELabels: Plato, Academy

    • Britannica
    • Academy

14. Xenophon composes apologetic works defending Socrates

    Jan 1, 371 BCELabels: Xenophon, Memorabilia

    • Memorabilia
    • Xen Apology