id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-8261 Socrates - Wikipedia .html text/html 16140 2234 69 Two factors emerge from all sources pertaining to the character of Socrates: that he was "ugly" (at least as an older man), and had a brilliant intellect.[41][42] He wore tattered clothes and went barefoot (the latter characteristic made its way into the play The Clouds by Aristophanes).[43][44] He lived entirely within ancient Athens (at least from his late 30s, and other than when serving on military campaigns in Potidaea, Delium, etc.); he made no writings;[45] and he was executed by being made to drink hemlock.[46] The idea of asceticism being hand in hand with an ethical life or one with piety, ignored by Plato and Aristotle and somewhat dealt with by the Cynics, formed the core of another philosophy in 281 BC—Stoicism when Zeno of Citium would discover Socrates' works and then learn from Crates, a Cynic philosopher.[172] Greek Philosophers – Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, Oxford University Press, NY. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8261.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8261.txt