List of cultural depictions of Socrates

Socrates has frequently been featured in or the subject of literature, theater, film, television, and art.

Art

• The Apotheosis of Homer (1827)

• The Death of Socrates (1787)

• Double Herm of Socrates and Seneca (3rd century AD)

• The School of Athens (c. 1511)

• Socrates (c. 1950)

• Socrates, his two Wives, and Alcibiades (1660s)

• Symposium (Feuerbach) (1869)

Literature

• Alcibiades the Schoolboy (1652)

• Creation (1981)

  Historical fiction novel by Gore Vidal in which a Achaemenid Persian diplomat meets historical figures, including Socrates

• De genio Socratis

• Divine Comedy

• The Just City (2015)

• The Last of the Wine (1956)

• The Plot to Save Socrates (2006)

Music

• "Bruces' Philosophers Song" (1973)

• Der geduldige Socrates (1721)

• Serenade after Plato's "Symposium" (1954)

• Socrate (1919)

Screen

• Barefoot in Athens (1966)

  Hallmark Hall of Fame television film on the last days of Socrates, starring Peter Ustinov as Socrates

• Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)

  Science fiction comedy film in which time-traveling teenagers assemble historical figures, including Socrates, portrayed by Tony Steedman, for a high school presentation. The title characters continuously pronounce his name as the two syllable 'So-Crates'

• Meeting of Minds (1977–1981)

• The Philosophers' Football Match (1972), in which he scores the winning goal

• Socrates (1971)

Stage

• The Clouds (423 BC)

  Ancient Greek comedy by Aristophanes that lampoons intellectualism in classical Athens; Socrates features prominently

• Socrates (1759)

• Socrates on Trial (2007)

Video Games

• Assassin's Creed Odyssey (2018)

  Socrates (stylized as Sokrates) is a side character in the Ubisoft game where the player can complete quests given by Socrates which involve philosophical dilemmas, much to the annoyance of the main character.

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• Bibliography
• Cultural depictions

Life

• Trial of Socrates
• Socratic problem

Concepts

• Social gadfly
• Socratic dialogue
• Socratic intellectualism
• Socratic irony
• Socratic method
• Socratic paradox
• Socratic questioning

Phrases

• "I know that I know nothing"
• "The unexamined life is not worth living"

Family

• Sophroniscus (father)
• Phaenarete (mother)
• Xanthippe (wife)
• Lamprocles (son)
• Menexenus (son)
• Myrto (wife)

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Socrates

Art	Double Herm of Socrates and Seneca (3rd-century sculpture) The Death of Socrates (1787 painting) Socrates (1950 sculpture)
Stage	The Clouds (423 BC play) Der geduldige Socrates (1721 opera) Socrates (1759 play) Socrate (1919 oratorio) Socrates on Trial (2007 play)
Literature	De genio Socratis (1st-century essay) On the Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates (1841 thesis) The Plot to Save Socrates (2006 novel)
Other	Serenade after Plato's "Symposium" (1954 serenade) Barefoot in Athens (1966 film) Socrates (1971 film)
Dialogues	Plato Apology Axiochus Charmides Clitophon Cratylus Critias Crito Demodocus Epinomis Eryxias Euthydemus Euthyphro First Alcibiades Gorgias Hipparchus Hippias Major Hippias Minor Ion Laches Lysis Menexenus Meno Minos On Justice On Virtue Parmenides Phaedo Phaedrus Philebus Protagoras Republic Rival Lovers Second Alcibiades Sisyphus Sophist Statesman Symposium Theaetetus Theages Timaeus Xenophon Apology Memorabilia Oeconomicus Symposium Other Halcyon Socratic Letters

Related

• Euthyphro dilemma
• Form of the Good
• Peritrope
• Religious skepticism

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