The Prison of Socrates

"On the slopes of the Philopappos Hill, immediately to the south-west of the Acropolis, lie a mysterious set of caves. Little about them is known for certain, but it is believed that the philosopher Socrates may once have been imprisoned within them. Socrates was one of the greatest philosophers ever to have lived, the tutor of Plato and a leading intellectual light of the Western world. A principled man by nature, he was not afraid to speak his mind, and this eventually landed him in trouble with the Athenian authorities. After publicly supporting the rival city-state Sparta and questioning the established conceptions of justice and morality, Socrates was famously imprisoned for “corrupting the youth”. His friends begged him to attempt an escape, but ultimately he chose to poison himself rather than surrender to indignity."