"Memes, News, and Death: ON TH!S DAY IN 399 BC  Socrates was sentenced to death  The philosopher went on trial in Athens for refusing  to acknowledge recognized gods, introducing new  deities and corrupting the youth. Socrates proposed  that he be rewarded rather than punished. A council  of 500 men found him guilty, 280 to 220. He drank a  cup of hemlock poison, walked until his legs could  no longer support him, reminded his wealthy friend  Crito to pay all of his outstanding debts and died  NMBLE NEWS NETWORK Painting: ""The Death of Socrates,"" Jacques Louis David (1787)"
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