In a concise essay of approximately 250-500 words (including a clearly arguable thesis), citing specific examples (e.g. quoting) from at least three of the works of literature assigned for this week, answer the following question:What can we learn about what was important to the Ancient Greeks on the basis of the examples of different genres of their literature we have read this week?
Read the following texts:
Hesiod, From Theogony and Works and Days (pp. 36-45)
Early Greek Philosophy: Thales, Heraclitus, Empedocles, Anaxagoras (pp. 45-48)
Homer, from The Illiad (pp.181-291)
Aesop, from Fables (pp. 582-594)
ANCIENT ATHENIAN DRAMA (pp. 603-609)
Sophocles, Antigone (pp.660-666, 706-742)
Plato, Symposium (pp. 821-867)
TRAVEL AND CONQUEST (pp. 867-869)
Herodotus, from Histories (pp. 875-881)
Aeschylus, from Persians (pp. 804-805
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