The Golden age of Athens was a time of philosophy and art even drama its flourished in Athen and democracy reached its highest point.Socrates Plato and Aristotle were three very important philosophers. Socrates had a lasting effect on modern learning and thinking. But Sorates frightened and angered Athenians. In 399 B.C aristotle was sent to trial and was forced to drink a cup of hemlock which is poison and died. Scorates was comes from the writings of Plato one of his students after Socrates died it caused Plato to mistrust democracy.In The Republic Plato wrote that society should be made up of three groups: workers,soldiers and philosophers.Plato founded a school and called it the Academy where he taught a student named Aristotle.Aristotle believed that reasons should guide the pursuit of knowledge. He later founded his own school, The Lyceum
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