1. Sophists were a big deal during Socrates' time (and not in a good way). Socrates was actually accused of being a Sophist at one point in the Apologia. Who were the sophists? (p. 38) How did Socrates feel about them and why was he accused of being one?
2. Unhappy with scientific accounts of the time, what does Socrates turn to instead and similarly, what discovery, according to Cornford, ranks Socrates among the greatest philosophers?