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Fifth Century [499-400 BCE] reviewed via ‘Socrates’ (by Plato). Compare & Contr

Fifth Century [499-400 BCE] reviewed via ‘Socrates’ (by Plato).
Compare & Contrast items from the assigned readings: recount generic similarities but specific differences.
Purpose, to get you to put together ideas about the Fifth Century as it might have been seen by Plato, using his ideas of ‘Socrates’ as a filter:
HINT Plato in the Apology represents Socrates reporting a quest to find anyone wiser than he, questioning three kinds of Athenians, [1] public men, [2] poets, [3] craftsmen.
[1] reread Thucydides & ask how Socrates woduld critique Pericles’ funeral oration with its puff for democracy as opposed to oligarchy (Athens contrasted with Sparta);
[2] Sophocles representing the conflicting ideals of Antigone & Creon, how would that be seen by Socrates who claims to be guided by an inner ‘demon’;
[3] reread in Thucydides the Athenian claim that the strong rule (stated in debate at Corinth & again in dialogue with Melos). .
You should illustrate your argument with brief but apt quotations from the texts. Length, three to five pages, double spaced, 12 point Times Roman font