- Lampooned in a play by Aristophanes which portrays him as a thief and a fraud whose school gets burned down by the parent of a corrupted youth
- Tried and convicted to death for “corrupting the youth”
Socrates belonged to the lowest of the low: Socrates was mob. You know, and you can still see it for yourself, how ugly he was.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
Socrates was a pompous windbag and … the citizens of Athens deserve a small award for putting and end to his tedious speeches … Despite his role as a traitor surely Socrates deserved death because of his life spent as a tedious bore.
—Amazon user Tom Munro
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