ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -However, before discussing the speech it is important to set the scene. Socrates was born in 469 B.C.E. and lived to 399 B.C.E.

Detailed explanation-2: -Viewed by many as the founding figure of Western philosophy, Socrates (469-399 B.C.) is at once the most exemplary and the strangest of the Greek philosophers. He grew up during the golden age of Pericles’ Athens, served with distinction as a soldier, but became best known as a questioner of everything and everyone.

Detailed explanation-3: -Political situations aside, the Golden Age was a time of remarkable cultural growth, and this is what people most often think of when they picture this time period. This is when the noted philosopher, Socrates, was alive and his method of questioning is still modeled today in today’s schools and universities.

Detailed explanation-4: -The golden age of Greek philosophy took place in Athens in the 5th century BC. The works of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle informed thousands of years of thought, becoming central to thought in the Roman world, the Middle Ages, and then resurfacing in the renaissance and later.