{"id":3952,"date":"2008-09-16T12:00:35","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T12:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/usa\/shakespeare-theatre-company-the-appeal-trial-of-socrates\/"},"modified":"2008-09-16T12:00:35","modified_gmt":"2008-09-16T12:00:35","slug":"shakespeare-theatre-company-the-appeal-trial-of-socrates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/usa\/en\/shakespeare-theatre-company-the-appeal-trial-of-socrates\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare Theatre Company: The Appeal Trial of Socrates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Verdict: Overwhelmingly Not Guilty2,500 years ago, in 399 B.C., the Athenian Assembly found Socrates guilty on two charges: (i) corrupting the youth of Athens, and (ii) impiety, i.e., failure to respect the City\u2019s gods. Socrates was sentenced to death, but he is now appealing his conviction; the appeal, while long overdue, appears timely, not least because of the many open and hidden issues posed by the most famous free-speech case of all time, still tantalizing modern society.<\/p>\n<p>The Shakespeare Theatre Company organized the Appeal Trial, under the auspices of the Ambassador of Greece and Mrs. Alexandros Mallias. The event was sponsored by the Doric Column \u2013 a partnership supporting Greek culture at the Theatre.<\/p>\n<p>For the presentation of their arguments to the audience\/court, the advocates relied on the version of events presented by Plato in the \u201cApology of Socrates and Crito\u201d and by Xenophon in the \u201cApology of Socrates and Memorabilia of Socrates\u201d.<br \/>After listening attentively to both sides, the Jury, i.e., the audience themselves, issued their verdict by an overwhelming majority: Not Guilty.<\/p>\n<p>Shakespeare Theatre Company: The Appeal Trial of Socrates Sidney Harman Hall, Washington DC, 16 September 2008<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Verdict: Overwhelmingly Not Guilty2,500 years ago, in 399 B.C., the Athenian Assembly found Socrates guilty on two charges: (i) corrupting the youth of Athens, and (ii) impiety, i.e., failure to respect the City\u2019s gods. Socrates was sentenced to death, but he is now appealing his conviction; the appeal, while long overdue, appears timely, not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-embassy-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/usa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/usa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/usa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/usa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/usa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/usa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/usa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/usa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfa.gr\/usa\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}