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Why was Socrates accused of “corrupting the youth?” What was the outcome of the trial?sentence please

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The corruption charge, said Socrates in his defense, was because by questioning people in public, he embarrassed them, and they, in TURN, accused him of corrupting the youth of Athens by the USE of sophistry.

At trial, the MAJORITY of the dikasts (male-citizen jurors chosen by lot) voted to convict him of the two CHARGES; then, consistent with common legal practice voted to determine his punishment and agreed to a sentence of death to be executed by Socrates's drinking a POISONOUS beverage of hemlock.



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