Historical figure · Pearson Edexcel International GCSE revision on Incandio

Socrates

Portrait of Socrates

Gadfly of Athens · Philosopher of Athens · 470–399 BC

The philosopher who claimed to know nothing and taught Athens everything by questioning it.

Why Socrates is on Incandio

Incandio is a free revision platform for the Pearson Edexcel International GCSE. Its historical figures are the people a student learns from, questions and — where a specification topic is theirs — defends an idea against. Socrates can be questioned here in a dramatised, historically grounded portrayal, and the five-chapter life below is written to be read alongside the course.

Explore the life of Socrates — five chapters

  1. A Citizen of Athens — The city that made and killed him
  2. The Art of Questioning — A method that unsettled a city
  3. War, Defeat and Suspicion — Athens turns fearful
  4. The Trial and the Hemlock — A philosopher on trial for his life
  5. The Teacher Who Never Wrote — How an idea outlived its author

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