<P> The death sentence of Socrates was the legal consequence of asking politico - philosophic questions of his students, from which resulted the two accusations of moral corruption and of impiety . 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 . </P> <P> Primary - source accounts of the trial and execution of Socrates are the Apology of Socrates by Plato and the Apology of Socrates to the Jury by Xenophon of Athens, who had been his student; contemporary interpretations include The Trial of Socrates (1988) by the journalist I.F. Stone, and Why Socrates Died: Dispelling the Myths (2009) by the Classics scholar Robin Waterfield . </P> <Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Part of a series on </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Socrates </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> "I know that I know nothing" Social gadfly Trial of Socrates </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Eponymous concepts </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Socratic dialogue Socratic method Socratic questioning Socratic irony Socratic paradox Socratic problem Apology (Plato) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Disciples </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Plato Xenophon Antisthenes Aristippus </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Related topics </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> Megarians Cynicism Cyrenaics Platonism Aristotelianism Stoicism Virtue Ethics The Clouds </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> Part of a series on </Td> </Tr>

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