# Socrates

- Id: `socrates`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/thinkers/socrates/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `available`
- Content checksum: `e59ce21f1f87ee095c7d14e17dc6c488c5812eed1240aea2712a3c2f0f81c327`

## Summary

An Athenian philosopher who wrote nothing, Socrates tested certainty through persistent questions.

## Overview

Socrates died in 399 BCE; later representations are evidence carriers, not memories available to him.

## Lifespan

```json
{
    "display": "469–399 BCE",
    "era": "Classical Antiquity",
    "distance": "2,424 years ago",
    "age_at_death": null
}
```

## Intellectual tradition

```json
{
    "id": "platonism",
    "name": "Socratic and Platonic thought",
    "detail": "Socratic philosophy",
    "labels": [
        "Socratic and Platonic thought",
        "Socratic philosophy"
    ]
}
```

## Historical cutoff

```json
{
    "year": -399,
    "display": "399 BCE",
    "reason": "Socrates died in 399 BCE; later representations are evidence carriers, not memories available to him."
}
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 18,
    "passages": 1007,
    "languages": [
        "en",
        "fr",
        "grc"
    ],
    "intellectual_exposures": 2,
    "typed_relationships": 0
}
```

## Places

```json
[
    {
        "name": "Athens",
        "period": "469-399 BCE",
        "description": "Home, public conversations, trial and death.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/socrates/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Potidaea",
        "period": "432-429 BCE",
        "description": "Military service reported by Platonic witnesses.",
        "confidence": "B",
        "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/socrates/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Delium",
        "period": "424 BCE",
        "description": "Campaign and retreat described in ancient testimony.",
        "confidence": "B",
        "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/socrates/"
    },
    {
        "name": "Amphipolis",
        "period": "422 BCE",
        "description": "Third attested military campaign.",
        "confidence": "B",
        "source_url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/socrates/"
    }
]
```