THE HEMLOCK
Athens, 399 BC. A seventy-year-old stonemason's son is charged with corrupting the young. His friends have bribed the guard, and all he has to do is walk out.
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Athens, 399 BC. Socrates is seventy, a stonemason's son, and he has spent his life asking the city's most powerful men questions they could not answer. The city put up with it for decades. Now it has charged him with corrupting the young, and his accusers have the votes. Then comes the wait, thirty days until the sacred ship returns. His friends have bribed the guard. All he has to do is walk out. Every day a different friend is at the cell door with a new reason to run. Escape and he lives, and proves his accusers right about him. Stay and he dies with his argument intact.
Who it follows
Socrates has spent his life asking the city's most powerful men questions they could not answer.
What goes wrong
The city that tolerated him for decades now wants him dead, and his accusers have the votes.
What is at stake
Escape and he lives, but proves his accusers right about him. Stay and he dies with his argument intact.
What keeps it running
The trial, the thirty days waiting for the sacred ship to return, and a new friend at the cell door every episode with a new reason to run.
What you take away
A man who will not break the law to save himself shows what the law is for.