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1. Socrates

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   Socrates (c. 470/469 – 399 BCE) was a pivotal Athenian philosopher whose inquiries into ethics and epistemology fundamentally altered the trajectory of Western Philosophy. He authored no known texts; his thought is almost entirely reconstructed through the writings of his contemporaries and students, most notably Plato and Xenophon. Socrates is characterized by his relentless, public questioning of common beliefs, often conducted in the bustling agora of Ancient Greece, ut…

2. Thucydides

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   Thucydides chose to narrate the war using the Attic years, marking the beginning and end of each Athenian civic year, rather than the Olympiads or the reigns of kings [^1]. His history abruptly concludes in the middle of the narrative concerning the events of 411 BCE, specifically the destruction of the Athenian fleet near Samos.
   It is widely accepted that Thucydides died before completing his work. Later historians, notably Xenophon in his Hellenica, picked up the narrative from 411 BCE to cover the remainder of the war, suggesting that Thucydides' narrative structure…