The greatest teacher Socrates
Socrates was born in Alopeke , and belonged to the tribe Antiochis. His father was Sophroniscus , a sculptor, or stonemason. [22][23][24] His mother was a midwife named Phaenarete.[25] Socrates married Xanthippe, who is especially remembered for having an undesirable temperament. [26] She bore for him three sons, [27] Lamprocles, Sophroniscus and Menexenus . Socrates first worked as a stonemason, and there was a tradition in antiquity, not credited by modern scholarship, that Socrates crafted the statues of the Three Graces, which stood near the Acropolis until the 2nd century AD.[28] Xenophon reports that because youths were not allowed to enter the Agora, they used to gather in workshops surrounding it. [29] Socrates frequented these shops in order to converse with the merchants. Most notable among them was Simon the Shoemaker .[30] Military service For a time, Socrates fulfilled the role of hoplite , participating in the Peloponnesian war—a conflict which stretched intermittent...