In the year 399 B.C Socrates was brought before a jury of about 500 of his peers and sentenced to death. His crimes were impiety, worshiping new gods, and corrupting the youth of Athens. it is seemingly unusual that these crimes would lead to a death sentence especially since Athens was a democracy that prided itself greatly on freedom of speech, and technically all that Socrates did was talk. But after reading the history of the years surrounding Socrates death it is not at all difficult to believe that he would be sentenced to death. Socrates was a great enemy of democracy, he constantly repeated his objection to democracy as a from of government. But not only did Socrates personally object to democracy he taught his objection to his
