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Socrates: You can't be an impious atheist
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Once again, Socrates was in a great deal of trouble.
There had been that ugly debate with Euthyrpho at the Areopagus.
Before that his close friend Critias had been murdered for ordering
the deaths of some troublemakers, and then his friend Euripides had
decamped to the court of the hated Macedonians. And in front of the
all of the citizens of the city, Aristophanes had staged a drama at
the Odeon which held him up to ridicule.
But now he was facing criminal charges of atheism, ...
