Philopappos Hill

This guide to Philopappos Hill in Athens starts with four small chambers cut into the bedrock, sealed behind iron bars, which locals have long called the Prison of Socrates. It traces why most historians doubt the philosopher ever spent his final days there, and how the name persisted anyway through the centuries. From there it turns to the 1940s, when Nazi occupation closed in on Athens and someone made a quiet decision about what to do with these very chambers.