• 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

References:

• “lowest of the low”
• “pompous windbag”