DUE TUE 3/27 Republic Assignment

1. Short Paragraph – Personal Reflection: Before reading the selection from Plato write at least one full paragraph on this question: Why do you think Plato (or anyone else) would want to censor Hesiod? Remember that Hesiod was the poet who wrote about the fight between the gods and the titans.

A: I think that Plato might want to censor Hesiod because he might think that Hesiod is disrespecting the gods in a harsh way.

2. Then read pp. 67-76 (Section I. Secondary or Literary Education)
3. Short Answers – Text based questions. Answer both questions

A. What are Homer and Hesiod guilty of?
A: Homer and Hesiod are guilty of not describing the act of the gods correctly. For writing untrue stories of the gods.

b. What are the two main characteristics of “god” and what are the laws/principles of story telling based on those characteristics?

A: All the things that happen (good or bad) have a good cause to it.

DUE WED 3/14 - Personal Reflection (Plato)

How did you find out it was untrue and how did it make you feel? Did it change your outlook on anything?????

**When I was younger my parents had told me that if I didn’t go to sleep that the “CUCUY” was going to come and get me. But the only reason they told me this to get me to go to sleep. After they had told me this I always went to sleep right away. But then when time passed they told me that it wasn’t true so I was actually relieved because the “CUCUY” was a bad thing .So since that day I really don’t believe my parents when they tell me something like that.

DUE FRI 3/2 Personal Reflection

Well, one time that my pride had bad consequences was when I had an argument with one of my closest friends and she got mad at me for something that I had done. Ever since that day we never forgave each other, and that made me think about that sometimes sometime something that your proud of can lead to another thing.