9/12/19 blog

Today in class we talked about secretes. He started to make people think about things other then Greek philosophy. Since he lived in Athens and he was going against the beliefs of the Greek philosophy. He had a trial as the punishment of death. There were 500 juris. There were 279 people that voted guilty and 221 that voted innocent. He admitted to doing what he did but he claimed they should be rewarding him instead of punishing him. His friends convinced the guards to turn their heads and let him escape. When secretes was told he could escape he said no because he believed in the new system of the government. It was a form of democracy and if he escaped it was not following the rules. He faced his punishment and drank the poison which caused him to have a very slow and painful death.