Plato (c.428 – 348 B.C.) is a well-known Greek philosopher and mathematician from the Socratic period that had an immense impact on modern democratic theory. Plato’s political implications contained the pathologies of the democratic public sphere. Through Plato’s encounters and views on politics, he provided foundational ideas and insights on deliberative theory. According to Chambers (2009) his belief was that the strongest objection to rhetoric is not that appeals to passion over reason, but that it is nomological rather than dialogical (p.324).
Tim LaRocca Persepolis KPA In the book “Persepolis”, the author Marjane Satrapi, uses excellent diction to help the reader obtain knowledge and gain understanding of her main purpose in a specific passage or chapter of the book. Despite her specific word choice, it is challenging for readers to truly understand her main purpose only through literary terms and devices used throughout the book. Therefore, to help increase the readers ability to understand the main purpose of a certain specific passage, Satrapi uses an extensive amount of precise graphic elements. For example, in the passage “Kim Wilde”, Satrapi is able to express her main purpose that when governments tend to restrict the people too much, and become oppressive, the people tend to resist their law and rebel against the law by using the graphic elements of shading and facial expressions to express her purposes in and easier and clearer visual way.
Homer displayed in The Odyssey that everyone was punished and rewarded depending upon their actions. For that reason, if someone does good then they would eventually be rewarded, and if someone does wrong then they would eventually be punished. This quote here refers to when Zeus and the other gods talked about how the mortals accused the
In her critical essay, ‘The Iliad, or, The Poem of Force,’ Simone Weil submits Homer’s epic poem to her concept of force. Through her analysis of the epic, she demonstrates what it is to pay attention to an object — and by extension, another being. That is to say, the way in which Weil analyses the Iliad demonstrates what it is in her terms to love through attention in the face of force. ‘The Poem of Force,’ then, is not merely a passive analysis, nor is it a simple illustration of an example. Weil’s essay does indeed lay out a definition of force, and by bringing to light examples in the Iliad where force is demonstrated, she is subjecting the poem to force as she analyses both it and defines force itself.
In the play Antigone, Sophocles demonstrates the conflict between family and God through the characters of Antigone, Ismene and Creon. Antigone being ambitious and strong willed throughout the play, fights for his brothers honor and proper burial while Ismene on the other hand, is more timid fears the consequences that may occur if the laws are broken. For Creon he is the King and holds most power, until the Gods feel he is incapable. Antigone, Ismene and Creon all use logical and emotional appeals to achieve a compromise to either bury Polynices or not.
Everyone has a perspective on good and evil; the battle line between good and even runs through the heart. “Beowulf” illuminates characters that come from dark and deep backgrounds that construct their dauntless actions. In the heroic tale “Beowulf,” the author’s tones strongly demonstrates themes of loyalty, honor, and courage. Raffel’s tones remotely displays the act of loyalty within multiple characters. “Hail to these who will rise to God, drop off their dead bodies” (101).
The Crazy Iliad In life a very good skill to have is to be able to persuade people because it can help out someone in the future of their life situations. This skill is also important when going into war, and persuading people to fight or agree on something someone believes is true. In the Iliad, Homer’s characters’ use persuasion against each other multiple times in the story. The characters in the Iliad mostly use ethos, pathos, and logos when persuading each other to understand what they believe is true.
Rhetoric is an incredibly powerful tool capable of seducing even the most obdurate of people. As one of the most illustrious playwrights ever, Shakespeare was no stranger to the power of rhetoric. Rhetoric served as the fountainhead of Shakespearian allure. We watch the dramatic works of Shakespeare because we enjoy having our emotions manipulated; we enjoy the catharsis and self-reflection that accompanies a trip to the theater. Shakespeare truly was a master manipulator, but his manipulation was generally beneficial.
1. The Iliad is epic poetry. 2. The theory of 'unitarianism' is the belief that God is only one person. Unitarians do not believe that Jesus Christ was the Son of God.
In the book The Iliad there were multiple activities that happend. The Trojan war was one in which the Trojans and the Greeks fought over the city known as Troy. There were two sides of this war the Greeks and the Trojans. On the Greeks side you had Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite and many more. On the Trojans you had Achilles, Hector, Paris, and Ajax also many more.
Bryce, I concur with your opinions on how different the two poems are from one another and the difference between the main characters as leaders. With the tone of The Iliad, you could definitely pick up of the aggressive and more intense war scene. The rage that the first line speaks of represents the whole poem itself. The examples that you used to support your evidence of the epic being dark was also genius considering you included details about Hades being mentioned along with murderous and other dark words. I also agree with your observations of the Odyssey with the fact that the tone is nostalgic and adventurous which holds true throughout the whole epic.
To begin with, what is myth? It can be translate as a gripping and many-facetted subject. There are myths, sagas, and fairy tales; there is folklore and superstition. There are ancient myths, modern myths, as well as urban myths, that purportedly have taken place in our own time. Myths are often stories told by special people such as Indians, Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and others.
THE AFFECT OF RAGE IN THE ILIAD Anger is a common theme in society, and was also prevalent in the time of the Greeks. In Homers book The Iliad, anger plays an important role, creating the book that has a lot if drama and warfare. We will learn how the anger of the people and of the gods in the Iliad affect all of mythology.
The important thing to remember about The Iliad and the Odyssey are that they are great works, and merit the classic name that get attached to all great works of literature. Historians, such as Victor Davis Hanson, have come to understand clearly the relationship between the ancient Greeks (and Persians) and war. Thousands of years later, this relationship has been beclouded by schools of history, poets, artists, musicians, and the unfortunate commercialization of war as seen in Hollywood movies "The Iliad and the Odyssey were composed almost 3,000 years ago, and they are still constantly translated, imitated, dramatized and above all-read. In a world in which few things stay in fashion for more than a single season, that is indeed a surprising
The Iliad by Homer, the Odyssey poem written by Homer and the Prometheus mythology are classical texts that reflect the historical and cultural background of the Greek and Roman literary skills. The Odyssey and the Iliad are Homer’s epic poems that portray Greek and Western culture. The three texts give an insight of the ancient Roman myths, culture and the literature during both the 17th and 18th century. The two texts by Homer and the Prometheus mythology represent a classical period that consisted of the cultural history and the civilization of the Romans and Greece hence known as the Greece-Roman World. Homer’s narratives, the “Iliad” and the “Odyssey”, and Aeschylus mythical story “Prometheus” have cultural and mythological similarities
