The eerily beautiful wreck discovered in the Black Sea takes us correct back to Homer’s GreeceIn 399BC,Socrates drank hemlock to fulfil the orders of the Athenian law court, which had sentenced him to death for impiety and corrupting the young.
His friends begged him to leave Athens instead, and accompanying them into banishment. He refused and died as he had lived for 70 years,arguing the ethical superiority of his own decision. The scene was immortalised by Plato in his dialogue Phaedo and later by artists such as Jacques Louis David, whose painting hangs in novel York’s Metropolitan Museum. Related: World's oldest intact shipwreck discovered in Black Sea Artefacts from the ancient world have a specific resonance that nothing else can give us, and even the poetry of Homer Related: Ancient find may be earliest extract of epic Homer poem Odyssey Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com