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 214 Oiitlmes of European History of Herodotus ? To what causes does Herodotus trace events in the history of men ? What happened to the old beliefs about the gods ? What attitude did Aristophanes take toward the Sophists and Eu- ripides? What was the attitude of the people? Tell something of the life of Socrates. What was his method of teaching? What was his supreme inter- est? What did h^ teach? What were the realities to him? How did he believe they could be discerned ? What was his purpose ? Of what in particular was he the champion? How was he regarded in Athens and in Greece? Give an account of his last days. Did his teaching die with him? Where did the historian Thucydides find the causes for the events in the history of men ? Section 33. Describe Spartan methods of controlling the other Greek states. What were now the relations between the Greeks and Persia? How did the Spartan system affect her leading men? How did the study which we may call the science of government arise? Relate the career of Plato. Describe his ideal state. Wherein does it fail to be practical ? What kind of leadership did the Greeks fail to furnish? Could leadership in Plato's age be confined to a single city-state ? What did practical men like Isocrates and Xenophon advise? Section 34. How did Thebes gain the leadership of Greece? Who was her great commander? What was his clever military de- vice ? What was the cause of his successes ? Did the western Greeks in Italy and Sicily succeed in furnishing leadership for all the Greeks and combining them into one nation ? What was the final result of the long struggle among the Greek states ?