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CONTENTS: Introduction - Early Use of Writing Herodotus and the Contemporary Ionic Prose Writers The Development of Philosophy and the Rise of Technical Education in the Fifth Century - The Sophists and Socrates The Beginnings of Oratory and the Rise of Attic Prose Composition - Gorgias, Antiphon Thucydides - Andocides, Critias Attic Literature of the Restoration - Lysias and Is?us Plato Index