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I met Socrates in his final moments on the wall of the Met. The 71-year-old man sitting before me was a spectacle indeed: 30 days earlier an Athenian jury had decided, 280 to 221, to convict the old philosophically-bearded man, the thinker that had so distinctively and defiantly defined Western thought and brought many an aspiring sage to Athens’s marble doors. David’s masterful technique intrigued me. I became curious as to how art could animate a story, how it could elucida