This time it was Section 3's turn to come through with flying colors. The open exchange of ideas, going back to the time of Socrates, is alive and well in the United States and in our classroom. Thank you all so much for your candor, and for your respect for those whose opinions differ from yours.
Another artist, the Italian Giambettino Cignaroli, painted his version of Death of Socrates in the mid-1700s. Note the differences: in Cignaroli's version, Socrates is already dead, and not as heroic looking as in David's painting. Two different approaches to the same tragic event. 
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