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Why It Is Important To Greek Art Essay

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Excuse me, my friends for bringing up this topic at such a busy time, but I feel like this a topic that must be addressed. For many years, Athens was the place for culture. Lycon, you remember those days where you would throw those fantastic parties! Meletus’ father was a playwright. Look where it brought them. To this assembly. My fellow Athenians, we must support the arts in order to become the center-place for Greek culture, and so we do not become idiots like our neighbors, the Spartans. Those in poverty need entertainment. Let’s walk through the life of a poor person. First, they get up in the morning, usually very early, and start to head off for their workplace. At their workplace, they toil and toil away until it is time to go home. …show more content…

Imagine a paved road, going straight across the world until it reaches the end of the earth and falls off. There is only one way to go. A person who follows this way will become a follower, and will not be able to make decisions, and will eventually reach the end of the earth and fall off, his voice never to be heard from again. Now, imagine that the road has many branching pathways, one leading to righteousness, one leading to justice, one leading to a naked man taking a shower. These are all choices that we can make. When a person appreciates music, their mind is opened up so that they can make decisions that are more thought out. Take Crito for example. As a follower of Socrates, and rich man, you must have some musical training. He used his musical training to develop a new way of eating pork skins! Instead of getting his hands dirty with, he used a piece of paper to grab his pork skin and eat it! However, on a serious note, if music is supported, then we will have many people in our assembly who do have different views, and who do think their ideas out before presenting them. That, in turn, will lead to a fairer democracy, for we will have more ideas that are of the

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