[ORDER SOLUTION] Trial of Socrates

After Socrates is found guilty of corrupting the youth and impiety and receives the death penalty, he makes these two statements: one to his accusers and one to those who supported him. What do these statements indicate about the philosophical principles that governed his life and his criticisms of some Athenian citizens? What do Socrates’s trial and his views on his role in Athenian society indicate about the polis of Athens after the Peloponnesian War? Remember to ground your argument in this historical context and that this paper asks for historical analysis, not literary or philosophical analysis.