1) What does Telemachus learns about "civilization"? Telemachus learns that what is happening in his house is not the norm, and th...

3) Is it possible to be "over-civilized"? Yes, i t is possible to be over civilized, just like it is possible to be undoer-civil...

2) What does Telemachus learn about "hero"? T here are two very important lesson that Telemachus learns in Books 3 and 4, the fir...

1) Wh at does Telemachus learns about "civilization"? Telemachus leearns a very impotant lesson on page 127 when he comments that...

In order to be civilized, a culture or an individual must be brought out of a barbaric state, and adapt to a more simple social and private...

Civilization: Telemechus learns that recognizing rank and hierarchy is essential to building any civilization, especially politically. A s...

What does it mean to be civilized? Being civilized means that a person or place is brought to a stage of social, cultural or moral developme...

After reading through the books of 3 and 4 of the Odyssey,we see how Telemachus travels around Greece in search of his manlihood. The purpos...

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom. Bob Dylan I found this quote and thought I'd shar...

(pg 41, The Ancient Mediterranean World) "Mycenaean Places were often constructed on high ground, either for social reasons( to symboli...

The quote above is from the great movie; V for Vendetta. V says this after being repeatedly shot by government agents and one of them (Mr.Cr...

"Between about 1700 and 1100 B.C., a separate Bronze Age civilization flourished on the Greek peninsula. Until the late nineteenth cent...

"But we also discover something fundamental about a people in what they choose to argue over in the past." This quote from Preface...

"History is a series of arguments to be debated, not a body of data to be recorded or a set of facts to be memorized." History s...

“Who controls history, and how it is written, controls the past, and who controls the past controls the present.” What would your view poi...

I found this an interesting concept that only an unhappy land looks for heroes. I also find it a true concept. I agree it is the enviro...

"In the end, to know the past is to now ourselves-not entirely, not enough, but a little better" What struck me while reading this...

"When a society seeks to alter how the record is presented, well-proven facts notwithstanding, we learn how history can be distorted to...

“It is in times of emergency that heroes are looked for, and found. Bertolt Brecht wrote, famously, that it is an unhappy land that looks...

"The notion of the hero- that some men are born special- is radically inegalitarian. It can open the way for tyranny." Although gr...

"The Argonauts left Heracles behind," noted Aristotle, for the same reason that the Athenians took to ostracizing and sending into...

"Hero worship still plays a vital part in our political lives. It inspires both terrorists and those who combat them. It shapes the rhe...

“It is in times of emergency that heroes are looked for, and found…” Heroes are rebels, they are the brave souls who defy authority and st...

"Heroes must look, and act the part. They must swagger and preen or, if their public's taste inclines the other way, they must make...