Prison of Sokrates
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors:
Brady Kiesling
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Oct 22, 2025 09:18 AM
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History
tags:
rock-cut
The so-called "Prison of Sokrates" refers to a series of ancient rock-cut chambers on the Mouseion/Philopappos hill in Athens. The actual function of the site is undetermined.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/525587318
37.9693753, 23.7208104
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Prison of Socrates (550 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Gefängnis des Sokrates (German, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
- Φυλακές Σωκράτους (Modern Greek, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
- Prison of Sokrates located at Athenae (unspecified date range)
- Prison of Sokrates located at Mouseion Hill (unspecified date range)
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Jeffrey Becker, and Brady Kiesling, 'Prison of Sokrates: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/525587318> [accessed: 18 November 2025]
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