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Today we learned about socrates. Socrates was on trial for very strange crimes. One of them was the corruption of Athens youth. Socrates was basically accused of making young kids questions the Greek gods. The other thing he was trialed for was of impiety because he didn't believe in the gods. He was sentenced to death by drinking poison hemlock. socrates and the chance to escape with the guards in on it. The guards let it and socrates refused to leave. They could not persuade him so he drank the hemlock and died a painful muscle tensing death.