Socrates died in Athens in 399 BC after a trial for impiety and the corruption of the young. (Telling the youth about his belief in god) He spent his last day in prison among friends and followers who offered him a route to escape, which he refused. He died the next morning, in accordance with his sentence, stating “I will obey the god rather then you.” Which then afterwords drank poison hemlock to finish off his sentence. 
In accordance with this story we have captured in cloth that exact moment painted by French painter Jacques-Louis David in 1787. The painting was part of the neoclassical style, popular in the 1780s, that depicted subjects from the Classical age, in this case the story of the execution of Socrates as told by Plato in his Phaedo