The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages; . SOCRATES, the illustrious Athe-nian reformer, and the founderof Greek philosophy, is the mostperfect example of ancient Paganwisdom and virtue. He was bornat Athens about 470, , andwas the son of a sculptor namedSophroniscus. He learned the artof statuary, and by the practiceof it earned a scanty leisure was devoted to thestudy of philosophy and usefulknowledge. According to someauthors, he was a pupil of Anaxagoras, and received lessonsfrom Prodicus, Theodoras, a geometer, and the accomplis
The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages; . SOCRATES, the illustrious Athe-nian reformer, and the founderof Greek philosophy, is the mostperfect example of ancient Paganwisdom and virtue. He was bornat Athens about 470, , andwas the son of a sculptor namedSophroniscus. He learned the artof statuary, and by the practiceof it earned a scanty leisure was devoted to thestudy of philosophy and usefulknowledge. According to someauthors, he was a pupil of Anaxagoras, and received lessonsfrom Prodicus, Theodoras, a geometer, and the accomplishedAspasia, the wife of Pericles. Yet he justly professed to beself-taught. He was patronized by Crito, a rich and generousAthenian, who gave him money to buy books and pay histeachers, and afterwards became his devoted disciple. In acommunity which paid high regard to masculine beauty, hispersonal homeliness, or positive ugliness, was readily and fre-quently presented on the stage after he had become noted asa public character. The potters also copied his homely andgrotesque fa
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