Theatre takes Socrates's teachings on tour of crisis-hit Greece

Amid the debt crisis, many Greeks have come to despise their leaders, mistrust their media and resent the stern teachings of Brussels bureaucrats. Now some are turning to a rather different kind of wise man for help: an Athenian who doled out self-help tips while railing against the hypocrisies of society and the state – and whose lessons live on more than 2,400 years after his death.

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