Like many people, I took a college course that talked all about Socrates and we read the Apologia and stuff.

I had assumed that it was basically all fiction. That there was some guy who kept being annoying by asking questions, so much so that he was put to death, it's just a little too cute to be historical fact.

And that all of us discussing this stuff as if it actually happened is actually just an exercise in reiterating the truthiness of the underlying idea; that if we said it was fiction at the start, we'd be doing lit analysis, rather than philosophy.

Right?