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Jiang argues that Socrates' 399 BCE charges of impiety and corrupting the youth echo the exact caricature of Socrates in The Clouds.
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Impiety
Jiang argues that Socrates' 399 BCE charges of impiety and corrupting the youth echo the exact caricature of Socrates in The Clouds.
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"...put on trial and charged with two crimes. The first is impiety. Which basically means he was insulting the gods of Athens, including Zeus...."
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"So it almost seems like this entire trial was a cruel joke put on by the people of Athens to teach Socrates a lesson,..."
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