How Is the Greek Idea of a Sound Mind and Body Essential for the Succe

In Phaedo, Socrates uses the soul and body to express the distinction between the forms and appearances. Socrates describes the soul as “divine, deathless, intelligible, uniform, indissoluble, always the same as itself, whereas the body is most like that which is human, mortal, multiform, unintelligible, soluble, and never consistently the same” (Phaedo 80b). Furthermore, Socrates believes there is a “future awaits men after death” (Phaedo 63c) because it might be “a relocating for the soul from here to another place” (Apology 40d). Socrates believes “the one aim of those who practice philosophy in the proper manner is to practice for dying and death” (Phaedo 64a) because philosophers are stuck “in a kind of prison” (Phaedo 62b) struggling to acquire knowledge.

One of the main ideas about women in Ancient Greece that stand out is that they were thought to be less intelligent especially compared to men. Although, these thoughts seemed to have evolved drastically today, they did not change for quite a long time prior. The following quote from Antigone gives an outlook on how a smart woman, Antigone, proving she is capable of being as wise as a man, "There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom, but in submission to the Gods. Big words are always punished, and proud man in old age learn to be wise," (Sophocles line 1039-1043).

The Greeks placed great importance on personal honor. Why is this? Is it because to them man I nothing without honor. Or is it that the honor is more important than the man? "Honor to the Greeks is something that is won by a man's prowess, his ability to fight and be victorious on the battle field"(Schein 62). This is just one example of how honor is obtained. A second method of gaining honor is to be a great orator, one must posses the ability to speak in the assembly and express his ideas eloquently, and persuasively to the gathered body. A third way of achieving personal honor is to demonstrate athletic ability.

• They worked 4-7 years to pay off landowner for their passage to America. Once debt was paid they received clothes, tools, livestock, crops, and possibly some land. Most did not receive any of this because they died.

Were promised that if they survived the contract, they would be given food, clothes, tools, 50 acres of land and tobacco seeds

children. There are also bad parents that do not care one way or the other about their children.

their farms going while they were away, but when they got back they were forced to paid money.

that they can do things on their own. They didn`t need others to interpret the

their belongings behind and only take what they thought they would need. The Price family

The picture of a virtuous man in Greek society was one that was able to obtain many victories, serve his polis politically, worship the Gods, and run a household. The man all men tried to become is perfect in every way in personal and public life. He was powerful, intelligent, resourceful, cunning, and skillful. This man would take care of his family and make the decisions of the house, serve in the army, serve his polis on juries, and also worship his Gods. It is hard to believe one man would be able to accomplish so much and if he would be able to he would be considered virtuous by his polis and family.

money in the house when the boys arrived. They still didn’t care about killing the family,

“Even so, you and your crew may still reach home, suffering all the way, if you only have the power to curb their wild desire and curb your own”. This was said by Tiresias. The odyssey is an epic poem in 24 books. It’s a poem about Odysseus, king of Ithaca who gets lost for more than 10 years where he is trying to return to Ithaca after the Trojan war. There were a lot of people who played a important role in Odysseus returning back to Ithaca. Some of them helped Odysseus and some tried to stop him from going back to Ithaca. Three of them are Telemachus, Tiresias and Poseidon

other words, they have deduced that one should develop a consistent sense of self to which they

During the Peloponnesian War, Protagoras’s belief that “man is the measure of all things” and Euripides’ Trojan Women both exemplify the Greek Ideal at the time that truth is found inside of men, and all men have their own version of truth. During the Peloponnesian War, Athens and Sparta focused on personal goals as opposed to working together towards common goals. The moral lines during the Peloponnesian War were much more “cloudy” than they were during the Persian War; it was hard to tell who the “good” guys were as opposed to the “bad” guys. Consequently, the Greek Ideal altered itself to believe that truth is found inside of men, not outside of them; truth became relative to each and every person. Individualism rose to become the most

Throughout the history of the world, philosophy has been at the forefront of the human search for knowledge, but there is no other philosophy like ancient Greek philosophy. Ancient Greek philosophy roughly began in the sixth century BCE and continued on up until ancient Greece became apart of the Roman Empire. The great Greek philosophers of the time, like Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle focused their study of philosophy in subjects like political philosophy, ethics, metaphysics, ontology, logic, biology, and rhetoric to name a few. Even today many philosophers agree that ancient Greek philosophy has influenced much of today’s Western culture. Among the broad subject of ancient Greek philosophy there were many sub-forms of Greek philosophy like the Pre-Socratic philosophy, which involves the Milesian school, and Pythagoreanism, and classical Greek philosophy, which involves Socrates’, Plato’s, and Aristotle’s teachings; and then there was sophism and the sophists. Who are the sophists and why/how are their teachings relevant with the rest of ancient Greek philosophy?