Short Biography on Plato

Socrates:
Socrates, born in 469 BC, was the first of the great Greek philosophers. Before he was a philosopher, he was a soldier and a stone worker. After he retired he went around Athens asking people deep thinking questions and soon had group of followers. Around 399 BC, he was charged with corrupting the youth and committed suicide in his cell. The only records we have are from other people like his student Plato, because Socrates never wrote anything down.