A detailed look at the life and teachings of Socrates and his pupil Plato, and at the world of the two founding fathers of history—Herodotus, the first Greek historian, and Thucydides, the first to write a thorough and fair account of his own times. Their work exemplifies the vital curiosity of the Greeks about the nature of man and his place in the world around him. (52 minutes)

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