The trial of Socrates Socrates was a man living in the search for wisdom. He did not write, but had one of his students named Plato write for him. He was known for questioning everything and everyone such as his Socratic method. It involved knowledge, but asking questions after the question was clarified to his students finally understood what was questioned. Socrates kept for, with him to himself and was known as a wise man, maybe even the wisest man to live. He was no man to be a political figure and did not want any light shined towards him. Socrates was sent to trial for what was said to be by the people of Athens as corrupting the youth moreover believing in other gods nevertheless of the gods of the city of Athens. In the trial,