Pictured: Socrates enjoying a glass of wine, telling his students "nobody will ever cancel me!"

[Swede]

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[JustABozoOnThisBus]

1. Socrates with Covid 19: Since neither bleach nor Lysol has been invented yet, ...

... I'm thinking a goodly gulp of hemlock tea will send this pestilence to Hades.

Here's to my health!

[FakeNoose]

2. That's not wine - that's his cup of hemlock poison

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Socrates was sentenced to death for "poisoning the minds of the youth," and he drank hemlock to carry out the sentence.

[Swede]

3. Golly I hope you're joking.

If not, wow.

[Coventina]

4. Some people just don't "get" humor.

[Greybnk48]

7. That's exactly what is happening in that painting.

Socrates was sentenced to death for atheism (which was false), for corrupting the youth (he told them to question authority, even the gods), and with sophistry (false).

He was offered his freedom if he would leave Athens and/or stop philosophizing and he basically told the oligarchs to pound sand. He was the spiritual leader of the Democrats, and a danger to the power structure of the money grubbing Oligarchs so they got rid of him.

They weren't very successful since he's talked about and taught in every intro to Western Philosophy class in the world.

[FakeNoose]

8. You explained it better than I could have

Thanks!

As I understand it, it was partially political because Athens was undergoing a regime change at the time. Socrates was never a political leader (as we would call it) but he seemed to support the ones going out, not the ones coming in.

[joshcryer]

9. Someone posted this in the Twitter thread:

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They're both being ironic because Conservatives are stupid af.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

5. Did Socrates have himself a Bowflex or something? Dude was looking pretty damn fit for his age nt

[Coventina]

6. Well, you know, the Greeks and physical beauty....

He probably would have had body image issues if he missed any of his Crossfit sessions.