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- Humanities 110
- Paper Topic #2
- Due Date: Saturday, October 7, 2000, 5
p.m. in the Faculty mailboxes in Eliot.
- Length: 1500 words.
- Looking at his account of Croesus (Book 1,
85-93) or of Helen's abduction (Book 2, 112-120), analyze how
Herodotus seeks to establish the truth of his narrative and
evaluate his ability to do so persuasively.
- Writing about Hesiod's Theogony,
Murray argues that: "Such cosmological speculation provided the
base from which arose the Ionian theories about the ultimate
physical composition of the universe, which were the origins of
scientific thought." [Early Greece, 92] Do you
agree with this proposition or would you argue that the
cosmological models put forward by Anaximander, Anaximenes, and
Thales (the Milesians) are fundamentally different from
Hesiod's?
- According to what principles does the
Works and Days propose to organize or make order in the
culture it describes? To what social, political, theological or
ethical uses are these principles put?
- Compare Solon's fragment 3 (Miller, p. 67)
to Theognis' fragment 23 (Miller, p. 92-93). In your analysis,
make sure to address the subject matter and likely context of
performance of the poems. What is the significance of your
comparison for understanding the values that may have contributed
to harmony in the polis?
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