History of the Ancient World: A Global Perspective

Greek Tragedy and the Sophists (1x17)

Air date: Jan 01, 2011

Continue your examination of Greece's cultural heritage with this look at Greek theater—especially its greatest playwrights of tragedy, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides—and the second wave of philosophers known as the Sophists, led first by Socrates and then by his disciple Plato.