Political Thought: Ancient Greek, Part-3
Unequal, selective approach to different people in accordance with their relative merits and virtues was exemplified by Odysseus’s attitude to his fellow countrymen: exhorting the “good” ones and appealing to their sense of honor and to common ideals, he resorted to threats and even man-handling in relation to the “bad” ones, e.g.Thersites: But when he …
