https://www.quora.com/Is-there-evidence-that-Socrates-existed
SOME EXPERTS HAVE WRITTEN THAT THE GREEK, SOCRATES, WAS INVENTED. CURIOUS, I SOUGHT OUT EVIDENCE OF HIS ACTUAL LIFE, RATHER THAN THE MERE PHILOSOPHICAL PERSONA HE IS NOW. WHO IS SOCRATES? THE FIRST AMONG THE FAMED, FOUNDING WESTERN PHILOSOPHICAL TRIAD: SOCRATES, PLATO, AND ARISTOTLE? COULD IT BE THAT SOCRATES WAS NO MORE THAN A MERE LITERARY FIGURE, OR THAN AN IMAGINED FIGMENT? NO MORE THAN AN APOSTROPHE?
SOCRATES, ACCORDING TO PLATO, CHOSE TO DRINK POISONED HEMLOCK, RATHER THAN TO ESCAPE ATHENS IN AN AWAITING SHIP. A 500-MAN, ATHENIAN JURY HAD EARLIER CONVICTED HIM OF "TEACHING DANGEROUS, FOREIGN IDEAS, STRANGE IDEAS TO ATHENIAN YOUTH."
I WAS FLUMMOXED WHEN I FIRST LEARNED THAT THE MAN, SOCRATES WAS MADE-UP, FAKE, AN APOSTROPHIC FIGURE OF SPEECH! I AM BETTER NOW. THE IDEA AND THE IDEAL OF SOCRATES, SUFFICES AND SURVIVES, 2500 YEARS LATER. THAT HE HAD NO WRITING OF HIS OWN, MATTERS NOT. HE APPEARS IN HIS "STUDENT'S" WRITINGS, PLATO, IN PLATO'S DIALOGUES AND TALES..
https://www.quora.com/Is-there-evidence-that-Socrates-existed
SOME EXPERTS HAVE WRITTEN THAT THE GREEK, SOCRATES, WAS INVENTED. CURIOUS, I SOUGHT OUT EVIDENCE OF HIS ACTUAL LIFE, RATHER THAN THE MERE PHILOSOPHICAL PERSONA HE IS NOW. WHO IS SOCRATES? THE FIRST AMONG THE FAMED, FOUNDING WESTERN PHILOSOPHICAL TRIAD: SOCRATES, PLATO, AND ARISTOTLE? COULD IT BE THAT SOCRATES WAS NO MORE THAN A MERE LITERARY FIGURE, OR THAN AN IMAGINED FIGMENT? NO MORE THAN AN APOSTROPHE?
SOCRATES, ACCORDING TO PLATO, CHOSE TO DRINK POISONED HEMLOCK, RATHER THAN TO ESCAPE ATHENS IN AN AWAITING SHIP. A 500-MAN, ATHENIAN JURY HAD EARLIER CONVICTED HIM OF "TEACHING DANGEROUS, FOREIGN IDEAS, STRANGE IDEAS TO ATHENIAN YOUTH."
I WAS FLUMMOXED WHEN I FIRST LEARNED THAT THE MAN, SOCRATES WAS MADE-UP, FAKE, AN APOSTROPHIC FIGURE OF SPEECH! I AM BETTER NOW. THE IDEA AND THE IDEAL OF SOCRATES, SUFFICES AND SURVIVES, 2500 YEARS LATER. THAT HE HAD NO WRITING OF HIS OWN, MATTERS NOT. HE APPEARS IN HIS "STUDENT'S" WRITINGS, PLATO, IN PLATO'S DIALOGUES AND TALES..