The epic poems of Homer stressed the many characteristics that the Greeks admired and rewarded. These include heroic traits, bravery in battle, personal honor, a love for adventure, and cleaver behavior. The Odyssey deals with adventures of Odysseus after the Trojan War. Odysseus wife Penople is to marry a man that can accomplish a trait that only Odysseus is able to accomplish. When Odysseus returns home he dresses up as a beggar to take everything that he has missed in the time that he was gone in, instead of just showing up as himself. On the way home from the War he was punished from the Gods, and they set him through obst

Plato encourages people to question their ideas and values. He was committed to truth and willing to die for it. His beliefs inspired religious leaders to hold fast to their Christian beliefs and as a result religious people were put to death. In the “Apology” Socrates searches to find someone who is wiser than he because he has been told that he is the wisest one. As a result the people want to put him to death because he challenged them to be moral. The Greeks philosophers of Plato became the foundation of the Western thought.

acles trying to delay the time of his return. Odysseus again shows clever behavior along with strength, bravery in battle, and heroic traits dealing with and overcoming the obstacles. The period of the Middle Ages with it’s feudalism that glorified knighthood and bravery in battle was influenced

Some topics in this essay:
Sparta Athens, Corinth Oedipus, War Odysseus, Thucydides Plato, Middle Ages, Greece Thucydides, Western Civilization, Western Greek, bravery battle, Greeks Greeks, heroic traits, people death, foundation western, ideas religion, western civilization, civic responsibilities, ,