Fifth-Century Athens: A Time of War and Culture

Not even the Peloponnesian Wars could stop the continued development of culture in Athens. On today’s episode, Rabbi Rocklin will walk us through the following questions:

1. Why did Athens and Sparta start warring with each other?
2. How did fifth-century Athens cultivate Greek thought so that the spirit of inquiry became the hallmark of Greek intellectuals?
3. What made Thucydides different from Herodotus if they were both historians?