To what extent are the ideals and values that Pericles discusses the same and/or different from the ones embodied in Homer’s IIiad?

Also review the speech given by presidents Bush & Obama at Arlington National Cemetery ( Veterans Memorial.) As you know , pericles’ funeral speech was in memory of younf Athenian soldies who had died fighting for Athens in the Peloponnesian war. Pericles, the greatest statesman and leader of the Atlhenian democracy, gave this speech to the citizents of Athens. Pericles was holding up Athens as a model for all greek city-states, and many have seen it as an attempt t summarize what made Athenian, and indeed Greek, culture and civilization great and unique.

Based on your study of the historical context and periods of Greek civilization and primary texts from these cultures, in an essay address the following question: A) What are the ideals and values Pericles sees as typifying Athens and Athenian society? B) To what extent are the ideals and values that Pericles discusses the same and/or different from the ones embodied in Homer’s IIiad? Where do you see changes in values from the Heroic culture of the IIiad to the culture of the Classical Period? C)Do you see the ideals and values pericles discusses in the other works we have studied from the Classical/Hellenic Period (art,architecture,plays, historical writings)? Do you see other ideals in these works or in the history of Athens in the Hellenic Period that Pericles does not discuss in his Oration? D) How are the values Pericles sees in Athenian society similar or different than the ones Bush/Obama sees in American society? In this essay be as specific as possible both in your analysis of the Funneral Oration, and in detailing these ideals and how they are or are notmainifested in the specific works of art,poetry,drama,philosophy and history,and in the speech by the American president. In your essay illustrate your knowledge and command of both background information on the various historical periods and the primary documents. Your discussion and analysis of the primary texts should illustate both formalistic and contextualist approaches to the material


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