Socrates What would you do If you knew in your heart that something that you knew was truly the right thing, and the church accused you of being a hermit? Well for Socrates that was the way his whole life was. He was one of the many scientists in ancient Greece to go beyond the beliefs of the church. Socrates was born and lived in Athens all his life. Through out his life he married Xanthippe, and had 3 sons. He was never very rich, but he never excepted money for his great teachings, but he would except food and other offerings similar to that. He was alone with his ideas and never really had a big influence i