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In this story, Socrates has been convicted of corrupting the youth of Athens and introducing strange gods, and has been sentenced to die by drinking poison hemlock. Socrates uses his death as a final lesson for his pupils rather than fleeing when the opportunity arises, and faces it calmly.
Through a network of gestures and expressions, David’s figures act out the last moments of Socrates’s life. He is about to grasp the cup of hemlock, offered by a disciple who cannot bear to witness the event. David consulted antiquarian scholars to create an archeologically exacting image, including details of furniture and clothing.
5 maj 2022 · The painting depicts the Greek philosopher Socrates (469–399 B.C.) about to take a goblet of poison hemlock. Imprisoned for impiety and corrupting the youth of Athens, Socrates refused to renounce his beliefs and was sentenced to death.
21 kwi 2018 · Athenian law prescribed death by drinking a cup of poison hemlock. Socrates drank the hemlock, was condemned at trial, and executed his death sentence. The great philosopher never rejected his beliefs and chose death instead of living a life of shame as an exiled old man.
8 lut 2024 · Ultimately, Socrates was given a cup of poison — likely hemlock, a highly poisonous plant related to parsley — and ended his life at the age of 70, hated by many of his fellow citizens. But that didn’t seem to bother the famous philosopher, who purportedly met his end bravely.
26 kwi 2022 · In Plato's Phaedo which describes Socrates' last hours after he is sentenced to die by drinking a poison called hemlock (the cup in the painting), Socrates argues for the immortality of the soul and says that death frees the soul from the corrupting influences of the body, and says "I not only do not grieve, but I have great hopes that there is ...
12 cze 2011 · The closing pages of Plato’s Phaedo provide a stunning picture of the effects of poison upon the body of Socrates. Plato describes a slowly ascending paralysis, beginning in Socrates’ feet and creeping steadily up his legs toward his chest, with Socrates’ mind remaining clear until the end.
