Socrates
Quote
"One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him."
Meaning
With this quote, Socrates is trying to say that whatever someone has done to you, you should not take revenge. It is saying that if you do the same thing to the person, you are sinking to his level. There is no good reason to do an injustice to another man, no mater how much they have hurt you. This reflects on Socrates specifically. He was sentenced to death, but while he was awaiting his execution, one of his pupils said he could get him out, but Socrates decided to accept his sentence. He did not want to laugh as the captor attempted to find him, he did not want to exact his revenge on the prosecuters, he simply accepted it.
Relativity to Ancient Greece
This relates to the Ancient Greek laws. The laws say that murder is a capital offense. This means that if you to murder for revenge, you would be killed because of it. This discourages revenge quite a bit, as Socrates is doing in his quote. Therefore, the quote relates to the Ancient Greek laws because they both discourage revenge.
Photo
Citation: "nemesis greek goddess". Google Images. 20 September 2015.
Explanation: I used this photo because it is of Nemesis, the Greek goddess of revenge. In Greek times, she kept the balance between luck and misfortune, and took revenge on those who had too much.