HIST 10800 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Socratic Method, Sophocles, Long Walls
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Sophocles was the second great playwright in the age of pericles who beat aeschylus in the contest in 468 b. c. e. Sophocles wrote about 100 plays in total including the most famous greek drama, oedipus. Peloponnesian war the peloponnesian war was a war waged between the two powerful city-states of athens and sparta. It began when sparta marched into athenian territory in 431 b. c. e. and athens suffered from a plague in 430 b. c. e. and an overwhelming defeat at sicily in 413 b. c. e. In 404 b. c. e. , athens and its allies finally surrendered, and the spartans forced them to tear down the long walls. Thucydides thucydides was an athenian who kept a record of the peloponnesian. War in his journal, called the history of the peloponnesian war. Thucydides also fell sick during the plague and almost died. Socrates socrates was a philosopher who developed the way of teaching by asking questions, now known as the socratic method.
