Athens is the historical city identified as the birthplace of philosopher Socrates in Assassin's Creed Odyssey.
Assassin's Creed Odyssey is set in ancient Greece during the Peloponnesian War, beginning in 431 BCE. Athens appears as one of the game's major urban and political centers, alongside Sparta and many other regions of the Greek world. The historical Socrates appears as a character and engages the protagonist in philosophical conversations.
Socrates was born in Athens around 469 BCE and spent most of his life there. He is known through the writings of students and contemporaries, especially Plato, because Socrates himself left no surviving philosophical texts.
Odyssey uses historical figures and places within a fictional adventure involving the Cult of Kosmos and the Isu. It is not a documentary reconstruction, but its setting draws on the political divisions and cultural world of classical Greece.