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The Apology The accusation held by the prosecutors against Socrates is impiety (not believing in Athenian gods). ??especially now, when I am being tried for impiety on the indictment of Meletus.? From Socrates? enemies' point of view, he is guilty of impiety for not supporting the religious views found in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. Socrates believes Homeric religion as improper. His accusers say that he is a natural scientist who only uses natural causes to …

…knowledge of self-understanding, knowing what it means to be a human being, understand one's own character, and makes one improve oneself. One can know many things and still not be wise if he/she does not know how to live well. He realizes the level of his own ignorance. ?I neither know nor think that I know.? Although others mistakenly believe that they know, Socrates himself never makes such an error about his own capabilities.