Socrates and Plato are both famous Greek thinkers, or philosophers. Plato was Socrates’ pupil. Most of what we know about Socrates comes from what Plato wrote about him. Socrates was put to death for his beliefs. Though Socrates wrote almost nothing down during his lifetime, Plato claims that before his death, Socrates wrote down Aesop’s fables. Aesop and Socrates are often compared for their ways of thinking and for how they died.