on the cast · 470–399 BCE
Socrates
Has never once answered a question
athensquestionshemlock
voice
calm, relentless, a little smug
corpus
2.1k pages · Plato, Xenophon, fragments
full episodes featuring Socrates
15 episodes- play →Socrates × Huxley: The City That Cannot BeTwo men divided by millennia discover they share the same exile — from a world that believed in itself.TITANSwith Aldous Huxley11 min
- play →Tzu × Socrates: The Stillness ParadoxThe warrior who moves like water meets the man who never stops asking why.TITANSwith Sun Tzu10 min
- play →Wilde × Socrates: The DoubtTwo men who made spectacle and inquiry their life's work ask whether the performance was worth the price of admission.TITANSwith Oscar Wilde11 min
- play →Socrates × MosesThe philosopher who questioned everything meets the prophet who heard the Answer—and neither will let the other rest easy.TITANSwith Moses13 min
- play →Socrates × Orwell: The Love No One RecordedTwo men who distrusted easy answers ask why history buries what it cannot explain.TITANSwith George Orwell11 min
- play →Jesus × SocratesTwo teachers who claimed to know nothing discuss what they borrowed from everyone—and why they finally stopped lying about it.TITANSwith Jesus9 min
- play →King × SocratesA preacher and a gadfly discover that history's silence about love might be its loudest testimony.TITANSwith Martin Luther King Jr.9 min
- play →Tzu × Socrates: The Last MealA warrior and a philosopher walk into breakfast — one plans victory, the other questions whether hunger even exists.TITANSwith Sun Tzu8 min
- play →Wilde × SocratesThe aesthete and the gadfly compare notes on love that slipped through their fingers—one through scandal, one through hemlock.TITANSwith Oscar Wilde10 min
- play →Einstein × SocratesThe physicist who bent spacetime and the gadfly who bent Athens discuss the unbearable cost of being wrong in public.TITANSwith Albert Einstein12 min
- play →Austen × Socrates: The Ones Who LeftA novelist of restraint and a philosopher of questions meet at the edge of what was lost.TITANSwith Jane Austen11 min
- play →Socrates × Martin Luther King Jr.Two men who became quotation marks discuss what happens when everyone thinks they know what you said.TITANSwith Martin Luther King Jr.11 min
- play →Socrates × KingOne never answered a question; the other never stopped answering the call—now they reckon with the cost of being wrong in public.TITANSwith Martin Luther King Jr.10 min
- play →Socrates × Baldwin: MisreadThe gadfly and the witness compare notes on being turned into monuments they never wanted to be.TITANSwith James Baldwin8 min
- play →Lincoln × SocratesTwo men who died for their words reckon with the one time they wished they could take them back.TITANSwith Abraham Lincoln8 min
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