COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS

1. In what ways does the Discus Thrower embody the characteristics of Athenian society celebrated in Thucydides’ speech?

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   In what ways does the Discus Thrower embody the characteristics of Athenian society celebrated in Thucydides’ speech?
2. How might Socrates have reacted to Pericles’ description of the role of wealth in Athenian society?

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   How might Socrates have reacted to Pericles’ description of the role of wealth in Athenian society?
3. In what ways do Pericles’ and Euphiletus’s views on the relationship between the individual and the state overlap?

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   In what ways do Pericles’ and Euphiletus’s views on the relationship between the individual and the state overlap?
4. How did both Socrates and Hippocrates challenge traditional forms of wisdom in Greek society? What was the basis of their reasoning?

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   How did both Socrates and Hippocrates challenge traditional forms of wisdom in Greek society? What was the basis of their reasoning?
5. Both Euphiletus’s defense and Aristophanes’ comedy suggest that attempts to regulate women’s contact with men from outside the family did not always work. Compare the actual women mentioned in the defense with the fictional heroines of the play. What do they have in common? What does Aristophanes exaggerate or make up to raise laughs from his audience and to advance his antiwar position?

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   Both Euphiletus’s defense and Aristophanes’ comedy suggest that attempts to regulate women’s contact with men from outside the family did not always work. Compare the actual women mentioned in the defense with the fictional heroines of the play. What do they have in common? What does Aristophanes exaggerate or make up to raise laughs from his audience and to advance his antiwar position?