Whether it be someone talking politics during thanksgiving or a political movement moving against their government's ideals, civil strife is all too common throughout history. Some of history’s finest texts can give us a plethora of examples for these moments. Homer’s The Odyssey, Herodotus the Histories, and even the poet Solon wrote about political strife in Athens. Thankfully each source have different opinions on the causes of stasis and the solution. Of course each of them had different opinions of stasis, solutions and they wrote in different mediums creating completely different projections of their ideals. Unfortunately concepts can sometimes be hard to gleam, depending on the material. Between the material presented, The Odyssey is …show more content…
Herodotus tells us of the rise and fall of civilizations throughout history. The perpetrators of these rises and even their falls is their king. Their king is the one who tells the civilization to take action. Whether the king tells the people to go to war or not, the kingdom's future is partly his responsibility. Herodotus as a source attempts to give a, mostly, unbiased account of historical accounts of the ages. Herodotus is not diluted to think that kings are gods who do not make mistakes. The Greek gods themselves are known to make fatal mistakes. In book 1 of Herodotus the Histories King Croesus makes the fatal mistake of attacking the persians with only the backing of the Oracle of Delphi to believe he will win. It would be foolish to not believe there is a chance that the oracle could be biased, or payed off, to say certain things to particular people and questions. Herodotus tells us that the cause of Stasis, and every problem within a nation, is due to their leader. Whether that leader be greedy, dumb, or misguided they can make mistakes that will divide and/or destroy nations, whether it be theirs or others. Unfortunately due to the medium, Herodotus only gives us an analysis of the nations and their problems. Herodotus does not propose a solution. Herodotus does introduce Solon, who is the first man to give a solution to faulty