User blog comment:H-Man Havoc/Fallacies Within Argumentative Discourse/@comment-3546663-20110712001118/@comment-217683-20110712071717

Socrates was essentially convicted of corrupting the youth of Athens with his teachings, some of which were thought by some to slander the gods. He compounded the matter by refusing to apologize, and for using his trial to criticize the people of Athens. Basically, he was making people mad during the Peloponnesian War, and when one of his former students, Alcibiades, went off the deep end and defamed a number of sacred icons and then defected to Sparta, Socrates was blamed.