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Sócrates was a key member of the Brazil national team of the early to mid-1980s; Jonathan Wilson said that "Socrates was the brain of Brazil. He might not quite have had the flair of Zico, but he was the central intelligence". [26] Former coach at Fiorentina, Giancarlo De Sisti, said: "Socrates was a very intelligent man, he had great class."
The Trial of Socrates (399 BC) was held to determine the philosopher's guilt of two charges: asebeia against the pantheon of Athens, and corruption of the youth of the city-state; the accusers cited two impious acts by Socrates: "failing to acknowledge the gods that the city acknowledges" and "introducing new deities".
(Jaundice by itself is not a cause of death but instead indicates hemolytic or hepatic disease.) 1931 – Jacques Herbrand died in a mountaineering accident in the Alps at the age of 23. 1936 – Moritz Schlick was murdered by an insane student. 1937 – Gustav Shpet was executed after being accused of involvement in an anti-Soviet organization.
The trial of Socrates took place in 399 BC. Attended by the Ancient Greek philosophers Plato (who was a student of Socrates') and Xenophon, it resulted in the death of Socrates, who was sentenced to drink the poison hemlock. The trial is chronicled in the Platonic dialogues Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo.
The Death of Socrates by Jacques-Louis David (1787) Forced suicide was a common means of execution in ancient Greece and Rome. As a mark of respect it was generally reserved for aristocrats sentenced to death; the victims would either drink hemlock or fall on their swords. Economic motivations prompted some suicides in ancient Rome.
Adult film actress known as Sophia Leone. Weeks after the sudden death of adult film star Sophia Leone, law enforcement officials have come forward with new details, describing her passing as a ...
A Brazilian woman has been arrested in connection with the murder of an American businessman who went on holiday to Rio de Janeiro earlier this month. Letícia Clara Bento da Silva, 23, was ...
The case also happened around the same time as the O.J. Simpson murder trial, another media frenzy. "The O.J. case was really the first media-intensive introduction to the courtroom, to the ...