This text includes selections from Platoâ s Symposium, Alcibiades I, and Alcibiades II, providing a rich discussion of how Athensâ greatest philosopher loved and tried to teach her most ambitious youth and why Athens turned on both of them. This text explores the fragmentary historical relationship between these two men along with the discussion of Socratesâ alleged offense of corrupting the youth of Athens, his impiety, and his sentence of death for those offenses.