COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS
Based on these documents, what similarities and differences do you see between Near Eastern and Greek social and political organization?
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What do Homer, Tyrtaeus, Solon, and Xenophon reveal about how Greeks forged their own distinct sense of cultural identity? What would you describe as some of its key attributes?
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According to Solon, what should be the basis of society and why? In appealing to the Athenian government to adopt his proposal for the state-owned mines, in what ways does Xenophon build on Solon’s ideal while revealing its paradoxes?
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What role does the divine play in the accounts of the conquest of Babylon and the Hebrews’ flight from Egypt? What does this suggest about the place of religion in the Near East at the time?
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