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This 5 page report discusses and compares two ancient Greek texts and considers the ways in which each addresses the issues related to what is “just” and “unjust” and what defines strength and weakness. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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attitudes, beliefs and dilemmas could easily be understood by the audience seeing a production of their work. For example, the typical plot of one of Aristophanes comedies is
quite simple -- the plays primary character takes on some ridiculous scheme, and the play is then a telling of his or her success or failure. Aristophanes was also one
of the few ancient/classical poets who made the effort to show the actual life of philosophy in his writings. For example, in The Clouds, he repeatedly contemplates important matters that
are not constrained by political or artistic proprieties or limitations. However, he never fails to make his point in ways that establish what it is that he believes to be
the truth and the components of a meaningful life. Similarly, Thucydides attitudes regarding political realism and the famous "Athenian Thesis" establishes an idea that "fear, honor, and interest"
("interest" is most often understood to mean "profit") are what motivate all men does not fall into the more traditional or philosophical thinking typically associated with the ancient Greeks attitudes
regarding the supposedly more high-minded or noble ideals of humanity. The speakers in Thucydides often sound like the utilitarian philosophers they pre-date by, at least, a millennium. For them, they
are merely being "realistic" and that such realism can serve as a basis for a social order that was not necessarily based on issues of justice but in clear and
undeniable power relationships. The "Athenian Thesis" and the "Unjust Speech" Far too often, modern scholars assume that the ancient Greeks shared a fundamental common thinking when, in reality, their opinions
and writings are as different and unique as the differences in modern thinkers who might hold as widely divergent opinions as those of current U.S. president George W. Bush and
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