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The article is devoted to the study of the ancient heritage reception in modern culture. In the last decades the media environment, in which the antique knowledge representation is in hands of authors – non-professionals in ancient history, has become a major source of historical perceptions in society. Many figures of antiquity have been turned into media characters attributed with features and notions at the athors’discretion and in mass audience interests. A famous Greek philosopher Socrates appears such a personality in contemporary media space. The article offers the analysis of some cases of the Socrates’ image usage in socio-cultural practices – education and performance. The educational sphere is represented by a current trend “Philosophy for children”, which applies the principles of Socratic dialogue as a basic teaching method. And the reconstruction of Socrates’ trial, held in New York and Athens in 2011-2012 accordingly, is taken as an illustration of performance practices. The author has arrived to the conclusion that all the described examples have to do with “adaptive interpretations” (Wojciech Wrzosek), characteristic not only of professional historiography, but of mass historical perceptions in modern society as well.
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The educational sphere is represented by a current trend "Philosophy for children", which applies the principles of Socratic dialogue as a basic teaching method.
Reference to the philosophical, political views and also to the circumstances of his public and private life, constantly generates new research in different social and humanitarian scientific fields, new assossiations and interpretations (Penner, 2011; Griswold, 2011; Irwin & Johnson, 2010).
The freedom of such interpretations is explained by the scarcity and questionable reliability of antique sources, which, however, contribute to the conclusion that Socrates was an interesting figure since ancient times not only because of his particular philosophical ideas and methods, but also his personality characteristics and public behaviour (Blanchard, 2000; Morrison, 2011 ).
The methods of historical reconstruction are considered in connection with their operation in contemporary socio-cultural practices of Socrates' trial re- 895 464 I Special Issue of Journal of Research in Applied Linguistics, 10, Summer & Autumn 2019 enactment as a performance.
The very fact of the court trial and its outcome as the culmination of the Greek philosopher's life principles and 897 466 I Special Issue of Journal of Research in Applied Linguistics, 10, Summer & Autumn 2019 individual characteristics, has acquired numerous interpretations in the course of many centuries.
4. Summary Thus, having accepted a combination of specific Socrates' method, manifested in dialogic attaining the truth, on the one hand, and his deciding his own fate ( deliberate acceptance of unjust trial), on the other hand, as the definition of "Socrates' casus", we have gained new evidence of Socrates' image active usage in contemporary media space, as well as in educational system and system of performance practices.