New Ways of Seeing - The Death of Socrates

Session 1

                                          Jacques-Louis David’s neoclassical masterpiece,

                                                            The Death of Socrates 

                                  

      Group interactive debate on the main ideas beneath Socrates' tragedy such as the accusation of impiety and corruption of the youth of Athens, self-sacrifice for not recanting ideas or ceasing to philosophize, the threat Socrates’ ideas posed to powerful figures within the community and elsewhere. These issues had also been examined in the context of the current time period and the Syrian population in the Golan.