Jessica Nadel, Page 2

Socrates was good friends with many people in the thirty. The thirty was a group of wealthy elites who came to rule Athens. What does it say about Socrates that he was part of such an elite group? Plato was so determined to define “justice&#822…

There were only 5000 citizens that had political rights and they elected the 400 people that represented the whole population of Athens. It makes me question if it was a true democracy if only 5000 citizens had political rights.