Noted philosopher (the basis for three anagrams in this puzzle)

• Philosopher's very good bangers
• Plato was his disciple
• Teacher of Plato
• Philosopher who started as a sculptor
• Xanthippe's target
• Ancient Greek boxes well at first
• Greek who introduced the question-and-answer method

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Socrates (; , Sōkrátēs ; 470/469 – 399 BC) was a classical Greek ( Athenian ) philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy . He is an enigmatic figure known chiefly through the accounts of classical writers, especially the writings ...