During the Persian War, Empedocles’s belief that 4 elements make up our universe and Aeschylus’s the odyssey both reveal that the current Greek Ideal was that truth was outside of man, but concrete and touchable. The Greeks united together to face the common enemy of Persia in the Persian war. During the Persian war everything seemed to be defined by very “concrete” lines; the Greeks were considered to be “good” and the Persians were considered to be “evil”. The unity of Greece lead to the belief that the individual was not as important as humanity as a whole. Individualism was trivialized in this period leading to the belief that truth was outside of humanity. Empedocles’s philosophy stated that four elements and two forces made up the whole