Who is Socrates from Beyond Good and Evil and what is their importance?

Socrates (c. 470 BC-399 BC) was a well known and much celebrated Classical Greek philosopher. Among his best known works are the Socratic irony and the Socratic Method. Socrates' methods were somewhat controversial as he developed the practice of a philosophical type of teaching, in which the teacher asks questions of the student in order to elicit the best answer. This was meant to garner fundamental insight on the part of the student.