the life of people during the last, Iron Age is painted by Hesiod in dark colors. Lamenting over the back-breaking toil of his generation, the region of force and violence in human relation, the degradation of morals, and the contempt of law justice, he remarks: And I wish that I were not any partof the […]
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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
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Struggle Of The Gods The struggle of the gods for power over the world was one of the main themes of ancient theogonic and cosmogonic myths (in the interpretation of the orphic, Homer, and Hesiod). The passing of the highest power from Uranus to Cronos and then to Zeus had been accompanied, according to myth,
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Inception of Political Thought At the early stage of history the world outlook of Ancient Greek people. The Greek inclusive was essentially mythological. Their political and legal views had not yet separated off from this single syncretic outlook. The order of things on the earth was regarded as an integral part of the cosmic order.
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