List of cultural depictions of Socrates

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Socrates has frequently been featured in or the subject of literature, theater, film, television, and art.

Art[]

• The Apotheosis of Homer (1827)

• The Death of Socrates (1787)

• Double Herm of Socrates and Seneca (3rd century AD)

• The School of Athens (c. 1511)

• Socrates (c. 1950)

• Socrates, his two Wives, and Alcibiades (1660s)

• Symposium (Feuerbach) (1869)

Literature[]

• Alcibiades the Schoolboy (1652)

• Creation (1981)

  Historical fiction novel by Gore Vidal in which a Achaemenid Persian diplomat meets historical figures, including Socrates

• De genio Socratis

• Divine Comedy

• The Just City (2015)

• The Last of the Wine (1956)

• The Plot to Save Socrates (2006)

Music[]

• "Bruces' Philosophers Song" (1973)

• Der geduldige Socrates (1721)

• Serenade after Plato's "Symposium" (1954)

• Socrate (1919)

Screen[]

• Barefoot in Athens (1966)

  Hallmark Hall of Fame television film on the last days of Socrates, starring Peter Ustinov as Socrates

• Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)

  Science fiction comedy film in which time-traveling teenagers assemble historical figures, including Socrates, for a high school presentation

• Meeting of Minds (1977–1981)

• The Philosophers' Football Match (1972)

• Socrates (1971)

Stage[]

• The Clouds (423 BC)

  Ancient Greek comedy by Aristophanes that lampoons intellectualism in classical Athens; Socrates features prominently

• Socrates (1759)

• Socrates on Trial (2007)