# Socrates Topic: [[Topics/Hannah Arendt/Hannah Arendt|Hannah Arendt]] · People in this topic are listed on the hub. - **Who:** Athenian philosopher (died 399 BC ◻), known through Plato and Xenophon. ## Role in this topic - Arendt's "model": "a man … who did think without becoming a philosopher, a citizen among citizens". - Similes: gadfly ([Apology 30e](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Plat.+Apol.+30e)) and midwife ([Theaetetus 149a](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Plat.+Theaet.+149a)) are his own; the "electric ray" is Meno's ([Meno 80a](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Plat.+Meno+80a)), accepted only if the ray paralyzes itself too. - Also the subject of @rodjnaquin's pinned post on *Phaedrus* and dialogue.