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title: "Top 7 Intriguing Facts about Socrates"  
description: "Socrates. You must have heard of the ancient philosopher from the Classical Greek school. Here's 7 Intriguing facts about Socrates"  
author: "Abhishek  Sen"  
published: 2022-11-11  
canonical: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/1541/top-7-intriguing-facts-about-socrates  
category: "history"  
tags: ["Socrates", "intriguing facts", "Socrates facts", "history", "greek history"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Top 7 Intriguing Facts about Socrates

![Top 7 Intriguing Facts about Socrates](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/9a5c4199-a0db-4cdb-a647-d959f5f56283/images/957a40da-f855-4b61-9146-98e65cee0b46.jpeg) ![Top 7 Intriguing Facts about Socrates](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/9a5c4199-a0db-4cdb-a647-d959f5f56283/images/4d649332-dc25-4f37-b839-cc5d664a2acb.jpeg) Socrates was not born into nobility he had very minimal Greek education and learned masonry from his father at a tender age. ![Top 7 Intriguing Facts about Socrates](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/9a5c4199-a0db-4cdb-a647-d959f5f56283/images/ba643f7e-6a43-477b-bb33-92cca0eeb3d0.jpeg) He made money from teaching and practiced his father’s trade of sculpting and masonry ![Top 7 Intriguing Facts about Socrates](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/9a5c4199-a0db-4cdb-a647-d959f5f56283/images/e41e2de3-0b4d-4a4e-b83c-bebbf0ec1d5c.jpeg) Socrates was not a fan of religion, he tried to convert young people from religion. ![Top 7 Intriguing Facts about Socrates](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/9a5c4199-a0db-4cdb-a647-d959f5f56283/images/296f4f86-7dda-4453-b4e1-1f681bd72a27.jpeg) His discoveries and teachings on epistemology were recorded and taught by his students Xenophon and Plato. ![Top 7 Intriguing Facts about Socrates](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/9a5c4199-a0db-4cdb-a647-d959f5f56283/images/c4c873e1-77de-412b-b47c-771209c2aec7.jpeg) Socrates had a motto- Know thyself, which meant that people ought to examine their lives. ![Top 7 Intriguing Facts about Socrates](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/9a5c4199-a0db-4cdb-a647-d959f5f56283/images/973f411e-cf8b-4e71-8eb9-b816ae36a4c1.jpeg) He died of hemlock poisoning ![Top 7 Intriguing Facts about Socrates](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/stories/9a5c4199-a0db-4cdb-a647-d959f5f56283/images/957a40da-f855-4b61-9146-98e65cee0b46.jpeg) Socrates is known to have taught Alexander the Great- between 356-323 BCE, Plato, Aristotle and many more.

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