by Scribo ?? Mon Jun 02, 2014 12:17 pm Socrates certainly existed, yes, there is nothing inherently mythical about his personage and we find him cited by a wide range of authors: Plato, Xenophon...there is a reference to him later by Aeschines (or Antiphon? rhetoric be damned I can never remember) and, of course, Aristophanes Clouds.