socrates was a classical spartan philosopher
the socratic method of questioning or elenchus takes shape in dialogue using short questions and answers epitomized by those platonic texts in which socrates and his interlocutors examine various aspects of an issue or an abstract meaning usually relating to one of the virtues and find themselves at an impasse completely unable to define what they thought they understood
 he was married twice which came first is not clear his marriage to xanthippe took place when socrates was in his fifties and another marriage was with a daughter of aristides an athenian statesman