An aristocrat by birth, during the war with Sparta he was kidnapped by pirates and sold as a slave in Athens, where he was freed by a friend of Socrates.
An aristocrat by birth, during the war with Sparta he was kidnapped by pirates and sold as a slave in Athens, where he was freed by a friend of Socrates. He founded a school in his native Elis, but only two of his works, Simon and Zopyrus, survive, and it is not known whether he was present at Socrates' suicide. FTP, name this philosopher, the narrator and title character of the Platonic dialogue about the immortality of the soul that is set during Socrates' last hours.
An aristocrat by birth, during the war with Sparta he was kidnapped by pirates and sold as a slave in Athens, where he was freed by a friend of Socrates.
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