“You are not testifying truthfully in the case against me,” said Socrates with a laugh, “because like most Athenians, you still confuse a philosopher, who loves wisdom, with one who claims to possess wisdom!” Socrates explained that it was the Sophist Prodicus, a student of Protagoras, who was the source of these teachings. Socrates did not presume, himself, to know what awaits us in the afterlife.
