Socrates and Athens

So today in class we learned about socrates and Athens. Socrates was charged with two crimes. One of the crimes was the corruption of Athens youth. Socrates was accused of corrupting young minds because he would question their beliefs about the Greek gods. The other thing he was accused of was impiety because he didn't believe in the gods. He was sentenced to death by drinking poison hemlock. socrates friends persuaded the guards and said come on this is socrates let us escape with him. The guards gave in and socrates refused to leave. He friends could not persuade him so he drank the hemlock and died a long and painful death.