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In 469 B.C. Socrates was born. The son of a midwife and a stonemason, into a city amidst of a tumultuous transformation, he grew up in the suburbs of Athens, at eye level, with sacred acropolis rock.

“But young Socrates wouldn’t have looked out over the elegant lines of the Parthenon Temple, that exquisite symbol of western civilization that still stands proud today. Instead, he’d wake every morning to a horror, the blackened and burnout remains of buildings brutalized by war.”

His city bore the scars of a ferocious conflict with the region super-power -- Persia. But against the odds, Athens has triumphed just ten years before Socrates was born. Now it raveled in what some called the “Greek Miracle”, a golden age burgeoning trade flooded the region with new wealth and crucially with new ideas.