The prison of Socrates, Athens, Greece
Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

The prison of Socrates, Athens, Greece

Catsimpoolas, Nicholas · [ca. 1907–1915]

CC0 — Public Domain
Digital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

From back of item: On the northeast slope of the Hill of Philappapos are several conspicuous doorways cut in a perpendicularly hewn wall of rock and now closed with wooden gates painted red. This is the so-called Prison of Socrates, and consists of three chambers hewn in the solid rock which that in the center was never finished.

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