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| List 5 Themes In Herodotus |
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1.Retribution
2. Vengence
3. Sins of Fathers (Children are punished)
4. Pride (will be punished)
5. Instability of human fortune
6. Gap between Divine Knowledge and Mis-interpreation
7. Disunity of the Greeks
8. Triumph of free people over slaves
9. Fate vs. Destiny
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| When was Herodotus written? |
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A man calumniated is doubly injured - first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it. |
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All men's gains are the fruit of venturing. |
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As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with it's beginning. |
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But I like not these great success of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods. |
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Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances |
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Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace
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Death is a delightful hiding place for weary men |
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Do you see how the god always hurls his bolts at the greatest houses and the tallest trees. For he is wont to thwart whatever is greater than the rest. |
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Force has no place where there is need of skill. |
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God does not suffer presumption in anyone but himself |
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Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks. |
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| Great things are won by great dangers |
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| He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold |
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| How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied. |
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| I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it |
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| I never yet feared those men who set a place apart in the middle of their cieties where they gather to cheat one another and swear oaths which they break |
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| If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it. |
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If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own. |
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| If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own. |
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| Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change |
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| No one is fool enough to choose ware instead of peace-- in peace sons bury fathers, but in war fathers bury sons. |
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| In soft regions are born soft men |
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| It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen |
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| It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways eqaulity and freedom of speech are a good thing. |
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| It's impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all godo things for itself. |
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| Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh. |
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| Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate |
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| Men trust their ears less than their eyes |
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| Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in it's turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever |
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| Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing. |
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| Of all possessions a friend is the most precious. |
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| One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown blessedness to many only to overturn them utterly in the end. |
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| Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty. |
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| The destiny of man is in his own soul. |
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| The gods love to punish whatever is greater than the rest |
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| The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence |
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| The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance |
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| Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back. |
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1. Revenge
2. Greatness & Pride
3. Passion and rage
4. The position of women
5. Manipulation |
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Flow backwards to your sources, sacred rivers, and let the world's great order be reversed. It is the thoughts of men that are deceitful, their pledges that are loose.
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| I am afraid of you.. you are a clever woman versed in evil arts and are angry at having lost your husband's love. I hear that you are threatening, so they tell me, to do something against my daugther and Jason and me too |
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| I have often been the loser. Even now, I know that I am making a mistake. |
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| Do you think that I would ever have fawned on that man Unless I had some end to gain or profit in it? |
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| Dear children, and I shall have done a dreadful deed. For it is not bearable to be mocked by enemies. So it must happen. What profit have I in life? I have no land, no home, no refuge from my pain. |
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| The gifts of a bad man bring no good with them |
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| Moderation, the noblest gift of heaven |
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| I know, indeed, the evil of that I purpose; but my inclination gets the better of my judgment |
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| There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man |
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| When love is in excess it brings a man nor honor nor any worthiness |
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| When was Aristotle's Rhetoric written? |
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| When was Aristotle's Poetics Written? |
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Aristotle- Rhetoric
350 BC
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| A whole is that which has beginning, middle and end. |
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Aristotle-Rhetoric
350 BC |
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| The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. |
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Aristotle Rhetoric
350 BC |
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| A likely impossibilty is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility |
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Aristotle Rhetoric
350 BC |
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| It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences |
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Aristotle- Rhetoric
350 BC |
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| A likely impossiblity is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility |
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Aristotle- Rhetoric
350 BC |
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| The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons |
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Aristotle- Rhetoric
350 BC |
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| When was On the Orator written? |
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| It is other people's affairs that are to be decided, so that the judges, intent on their own satisfaction and listening with partiality, surrender themselves to the disputants instead of judging between them. |
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Aristotle- Rhetoric
350 BC |
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| Every other art can instruct or persuade about it's own particular subject-matter.. |
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Aristotle-Rhetoric
350 BC |
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| Persuasion is achieved by the speakers personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. |
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| The man who is to be in command of them must, it is clear, be able to reason logically, to understand human character and goodness in their various forms, and to understand the emotions--that is, to name them and describe them, to know their causes and the way in which they are excited. |
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Aristotle- Rhetoric
350 BC |
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| A probability is a thing that usually happens; not, however, as some definitions would suggest, anything whatever that usually happens, buto nly if it belongs to the class of the contingent or variable |
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Aristotle Rhetoric
350 BC |
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| For we shall be re-fashioning them and shall be passing into the region of sciences dealing with definite subjects rather than simply with words and forms of reasoning |
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Aristotle-Rhetoric
350 BC |
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| It may be said that every individual man and all men in common aim at a certain end which determines what they choose and what they avoid. |
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Aristotle Rhetorics
350 BC |
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| We many define happiness as prosperity combined with virtue; or as independce of life; or as the secure enjoyment of the maximum of pleasure; or as a good condition of property and body, together with the power of guarding one's property and body and making use of them. |
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Aristotle
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350 BC |
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Goods of the soul and of the body are internal. Good birth, friends, money, and honour are external.
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Aristotle
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350 BC |
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| Happiness in old age is the coming of old age slowly and painlessly for a man has not this happines if he grows old either quickly, or tardily but painfully |
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Aristotle-Rhetoric
350 BC |
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| We define a friend as one who will always try, for your sake, to do what he takes to be good for you |
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| The virtues, too, must be something good; for it is by possessing these that we are in a good condition, and they tend to produce good works and good actions. They must be severally named and described it is the nature of all animals to aim at it. |
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350 BC |
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| We are also to assume, when we wish either to praise a man or blame him, that qualites closely allied to those which he actually has are identical with them; for instance, that the cautious man is cold-blooded and treacherous, and that the stupid man is an honest fellow or the thick-skinned man a good tempered one. |
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Aristotle Rhetorics
350 BC |
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| The difference in the imitation of these arts come under three heads, their means, their objects, and their manner. |
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| To be learning something is the greatest of pleasures, not only to the philospher but also to the rest of mankind |
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| Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions--what we do--that we are happy or the reverse |
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| The tragedies of most of the moderns are characterless-- a defect common among poets of all kinds, and with its counterpart in painting in Zeuxis |
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| Peripety is the change of the kind described from one state of things within the play to its opposite |
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| A discovery is, as the very word implies, a change from ignorance to knowledge, and thus to either love or hate, in the personages marked for good or evil fortune. |
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Aristotle- Poetics
350 BC |
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| (1) A good man must not be seen passing from happiness to misery (2) or a bad man from misery to happiness (3) an extremely bad man be seen falling from happiness into misery |
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| The change in the hero's fortunes must be not from misery to happiness, but on the contrary from happiness to misery; and the cuase of it must lie not in any depravity, but in some great error in his part. |
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| The tragic fear and pity may be aroused by the Spectacle; but they may also be aroused by the very structure and incidents of the play |
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Themes in Poetics
http://www.gradesaver.com/aristotles-poetics/study-guide/major-themes/ |
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1. Cathartic Reversal (Cathartic-providing psychological relief through the open expression of strong emotions)
2. Complication and Denouement
3. The Imitative nature of art
4. Standard of Poetic Judgment
5. Tragedy vs. Epic Poetry
6. Tragic hero
7. Unity of poetry |
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1. Good life
2. Moral Virtue
3. Contentment
4. Importance of Moral Integrity
5. The importance of education |
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