• They both set the foundations for how people think about the world in their respective cultural spheres.

• They are also both only known through what other people have written about them; they didn't write things down themselves.

•Lived in the Greek city-state of Athens around 450 years before Jesus, a city-state is a country the size of a city. He was born nine years after Confucius died, and he lived until he was around 71.

• Father=stonemason/Mother=midwife

• He was probably trained as a stonemason but later became a soldier. After military service he spent a lot of time around Athens talking about philosophy and the good life.

• Aristophanes

阿里斯托芬

playwright

(negative and quite obviously biased)

• Xenophon

色诺芬

military historian

• 第三位是谁呢？

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