With that being said, the gods strongly pervade their form of justice throughout the human society. In comparison with today’s justice, the actions portrayed from the gods would be too cruel and in fact illegal. We have to ask ourselves, is it the fact that because the human society of The Odyssey cannot stand up against the power of the gods that justice permeates? In reading The Odyssey, I have found a degree of caution due to strong fear the humans feel towards the gods. Acceptance of the gods actions are mainly because of great fear the human civilization feels towards the imperious justice system laid upon them, also justice rules over humans by the realization of authority by power.
Most readers found it hard to point out the main point because of the way idea are presented within the text. The author didn’t do a good job with the flow of ideas because in the beginning of the story, he exposed the readers to the main character shame behavior. The main character Achilles refuse to fight with the Greeks because king Agamemnon took the girl (Briseis) that was given to him as a prize for being a great soldier. When asked to go fight the Trojan, Achilles further responded “Well, I’m going back to Phthia now” (page 6). The author shouldn’t disgrace the main character in the beginning of the story if he were to praise him in later part of the story since, this confuse the readers.
When Hector faced up to Achilles with his last dying breath, he wanted an honorable burial from his people. However, Achilles refused this request and rather torture Hector’s dead body on his chariot which is a display of disrespect and dishonor. Later on, the Gods intervened and persuaded Achilles to return the body to Priam. Achilles in some situations, due to his rage, refused to fight with the other greek armies and wanted them to fall back. Achilles seems to be more independent and want things to go his way.
The mortals in the Odyssey are scared of the gods of their great power and influence in their lives. Therefore, they try to act in a manner which will not offend the Gods. The roles of the Gods and Goddesses are a mixture of good over evil which is important to any good story. The super-natural powers of the Gods enables the mortals to interact with them for good or bad. Odysseus was a favourite of the Gods and had most of them on his side and
He then leads up to his main objection of this definition by means of stating that even though men and gods love that which they think is noble and good, and hate that which is opposite to those things, not everyone thinks this way about all things (Plato, 7). This being in the nature of things that are considered to be good by a group of people, can be hated by others, and this would also apply to the gods, for not everyone thinks the same. Socrates then uses a good example concerning the gods to better prove his reasons. He states that even though Euthyphro's decision to proceed against his own father may seem agreeable to Zeus, but not to Cronos or Uranus, and that there may be other gods who have these differences of opinions (7). Concerning
The fact that the Gods in Gilgamesh created the flood because of man’s sin (making too much noise) is childish and irresponsible of the Gods use of power. The way the God in Genesis goes about it is also irresponsible, but it seems to be more realistic because it was done in spite of the violence and wickedness of the people. The distinguishing factors between sin and wickedness is that sin is violating the word or truths set by the Gods, while Wickedness is evil or thinking that opposes God’s truth or belief. Sin is much less punishable than being wicked or evil, therefore this makes Genesis more realistic. Genesis also goes about this in a more realistic way because the people were promised it would not happen again.
Though Brutus claims that his honour forbids him from raising money in unscrupulous ways, he would still use such money as long as it was not he himself, but rather Cassius who raised it. The sickening and decay of friendship between two central characters is all wrought from abrupt and brutal conflicting perspectives as a result of each of the character’s individual conquests for
His account of this war was based on his personal experiences and the statements of eyewitnesses, and continues to be recognized as an important work of political theory. There are some who downplay its importance, citing that it does not take into account the ability of man to change and become better human beings. However, history has borne out that human nature is not able to be completely reshaped and therefore, Thucydides reasoning that those with all of the power will continue to promote self-interest and ignore justice can be
Many Greek Myths were love stories, such as Venus and Adonis, Cupid and Psyche, though most of these stories didn't end well, if you read them they are much more light and slightly fluffy in contrast to the Norse myths that were mostly about battle and ended with violent deaths like the story of beowulf. Aesir gods ( Norse gods) were seen as more powerful and less distracted than the Greek gods, also many of the Greek gods were deemed more beautiful and appealing than the Norse. Although it stands to reason that the Norsemen and Greek adapted
The Athenians were arguing because they wanted to go to war with the Melians so that they would not look weak to others. But however, the Melians did not want to fight because they claimed to be neutral. The Athenians demanded the melians to surrend their land and pay them but the melians ignoreded their demands and still claimed neutral. Throughout the Melian Dialogue, the question “Freedom or survival, which is more important?” is discussed between the Athenians and Melians, each side trying to convince the other that they are wrong. The Melians believe that freedom is more important, and the Athenians attempt to convince them that survival is more important.