Life of Socrates: Born 470 BC died 399 BC (jan 1, 470 BC – jan 1, 399 BC)
Description:
teacher of Plato; critic of democracy; believed all governments held the seeds of their own destruction within; for democracy that seed was freedom. “Anything taken to its extreme tends to lead to the polar opposite”Added to timeline:
Date:
jan 1, 470 BC
jan 1, 399 BC
~ 71 years