In Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Socrates appears as a major historical character and a philosophical interlocutor for the protagonist.
Odyssey is set during the Peloponnesian War in the fifth century BCE. Socrates appears in Athens and other parts of the game world, where he engages the player character in conversations built around questions, arguments, and competing interpretations of justice, virtue, and knowledge.
The game also includes other famous thinkers, including Pythagoras, but they have different narrative roles. Plato and Aristotle are not the principal philosopher encountered as Socrates' contemporary in Odyssey's main storyline. Historically, Socrates lived in Athens and was sentenced to death in 399 BCE; the game's dialogue is fictionalized while drawing on the philosopher's well-known method of questioning.