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title: THE DEATH OF SOCRATES

subject date: 2003-04-17

caption: Jacques Louis DAVID (30 August 1748 – 29 December 1825), French painter and politician. ''The Death of Socrates'' (470 BC/469 BC – 399 BC): the Greek philosopher, having accepted the unjust death sentence, refuses the advice and help of his disciples who would like to save him with the connivance of corrupt jailers because ''it is better to suffer injustice than to commit it''; he then drinks hemlock. Oil on canvas, France 1787.

category: HIS

copyright: © Fototeca Gilardi

copyright status: Copyrighted Work

country: Grecia

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continent: Europa

image century : XVIII

image epoch: Neoclassicismo

subject century: IV a.C.

subject epoch: Antica Grecia

technique: Dipinto

id: 15408

file name: FSNgilardi_4019.jpg

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David JLAncient GreecephilosophyphilosopherdeathexecutionsentencepoisoninghemlocksuicideSocratesAncient Greecedialogueethicsmoral philosophymoral integrityresignationdespairsorrowdisciplesEighteenth centuryAncien Régime