Socrates’ Profession
•In
Apology Socrates cites his poverty as proof he is not a
teacher
•Timon of Phlius and later sources state Socrates took over
the profession of stonemasonry from his father
•Tradition
in antiquity, not credited by modern scholarship, that Socrates
crafted the statues of the Three Graces, which stood near the
Acropolis until the second century AD.