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A 6 page paper which examines how gods figure into the
work of Homer and Plato. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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fictional and Platos was philosophical, they both held obvious ideas about what the gods were, or were not. For example, Plato "claimed something must have created the world, the sun,
the moon, the stars and the order therein, and that something must have been the gods" as well as saying that "we should believe the gods because most people believed
in them and the majority was unlikely to be wrong" (Meditation 13: Platos Proofs for the Existence of Gods). Homer merely offered us gods, never trying to prove their existence,
but definitely giving them certain characteristics. In the following paper we examine Homer and Platos views of gods, discussing them separately. The paper then concludes with a brief comparison and
contrast of the views of the two men. Homer "Most of Homers gods or goddesses...can be described as being very much like human beings, except that they are
much more powerful and they never die. They are often depicted on vase paintings from archaic and classical Greek times as human beings, though they are supposed to be far
more handsome or beautiful" (Garrett(1)). They possess bodies and the females who give birth. "They feel sexual desire and engage in sexual love. They even fall asleep after having sex"
(Garrett(1)). In addition these gods possess many human traits such as jealousy and envy. As Garrett(1) states, "These gods, moreover, are quite competitive: they get jealous, they are envious,
they quarrel with one another, they wish to hurt one another and occasionally succeed. In the dim past, before Zeus became king of the gods, there were struggles for dominance
among the gods" and even though Zeus is now ruler, "occasionally even Zeus is afraid, fearful that he might be overthrown as he overthrew his own father" (Garrett(1)).
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