Socrates from Antiquity to the Enlightenment and Socrates in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Socrates, son of Sophroniscus, of Alopece is arguably the most richly and diversely commemorated - and appropriated - of all ancient thinkers. This book gives an introduction surveying the ancient accounts of Socrates, and discussing the origins and the state of the 'Socratic question'. It also summarizes the reception of Socrates up to 1800.