The Man known to history as Socrates or socratis in Greek was born between 470 and 468 BC in the village of alopi a suburb of the Greek city state of Athens which lay just to the southeast of the city walls despite the fact that he is one of the Undisputed intellectual fathers of Western civilization and one of the most consequential philosophers and thinkers in history Scholars actually know shockingly few biographical details about Socrates for certain his father sofronis was described in some