In Apology, by Plato, the reader is shown the trial that Socrates underwent before he drank hemlock, as demanded by his judges. He faced the charges of being a man that corrupts youths by teaching them to question everything, an accusation that is laid by the court of public opinion, and of being an "evildoer... who does not receive the gods who the state receives, but introduces other new divinities" (Asscher & Widger, 2013, pp. 5).