Introduction

Socrates is, without doubt, the most influential and famous philosopher who never wrote anything. With no book to his name, socrates owes his renown to the impression he made on the people he met face-to-face. It is mostly through the dialogues of plato that socrates lives on to day. In this episode i want to talk about the way socrates was portrayed by two very different authors from athens: aristophanes and xenophon.