(a picture of Socrates dying by Hemlock)

                 Socrates is an ancient Greek philosopher, his method of asking questions to discover the truth that problems can be salved with thinking and human reasoning is the Socrates method. Socrates lived (470-399 BC) and was a Greek philosopher who, despite being considered one of the greatest and most important philosophers who ever lived, left no writings at all. Most of what we know about his life and work comes from the writings of his disciples, Plato and Xenophon. He lived during a period of transition in the Greek empire, and after the Peloponnesian War, he was tried, convicted, and executed for corrupting the young minds by questioning God.Killed by hemlock(a flower) which can make poison. A group of people tried to stop it, but he did not go as he chose to take his punishment.