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In this essay I can name two big differences between the Christians and the Greeks. One to the Christians woman is a blessing to mankind. They were created by God so man would not be lonely. To the Greeks woman is a curse to man. She is deceitful and a horrible curse. 

Secondly Christians believe that there is one God that created everything. The Greeks say that there are  multiple gods and you have to worship the right ones or else. These are just two of the many differences between Christianity and the Greeks.

How does the view of ethical cause and effect in history in Works and Days compare with the furies’ view in The Eumenides? According to Wikipedia Hesiod “was an ancient Greek poet generally thought to have been active between 750 and 650 BC, around the same time as Homer.” Work and days was written by Hesiod around 700 BC. 

According to Wikipedia Aeschylus “was an ancient Greek tragedian, and is often described as the father of tragedy.” He wrote many tragedies and only some are still here today. He wrote the play Eumenides. The Eumenides was considered culturally important by the scholars and the Eumenides was also considered to have been published around 458 BC. 

There are two completely different worldviews on ethical cause and effect in these two plays. In the Greek civilization there is some confusion about the gods and ultimate sovereignty. An example of this would be Zeus. Zeus has authority over all of the gods, but only a portion of the earth. Also all of the gods have different powers and control different things. Because of this the Greeks have no idea of which god they should worship. They have to choose a god and hope that the other gods don’t punish them. These two play have their differences and their similarities.

In Work and Days, Hesiod’s father just died and Hesiod’s brother Perses gets the land. Hesiod wants the land, but the court tells Hesiod no. So Hesiod tells his brother in Work and Days how to live a good life. Part of this advice was to not listen the the court, but instead omen’s sent by the gods. Hesiod hopes to gain a large portion of the land from Perses through this. The Eumenides tells that the gods are greater and more powerful then man. Accept they give power to the courts and say man has to listen to it. The statements about the court are similar in some ways and different in other ways. Even though they have completely different worldviews they are somewhat alike. 

A big difference is that in Work and days Hesiod tells his brother Perses to directly listen and obey the gods. In the Eumenides the gods gave man this power. Like I said before there are different in some ways and alike in others.

The business which most intrigued me this week is pet care. Pet care is taking care of other people’s animals while their on a trip or their not going to be back at their house until late at night. People mostly have dogs and cats and fun animals like that. I love animals and I’ll work with lots of different kinds. My whole family (accept for my mom) loves animals. We have a dog, a cat, chickens, ducks, sheep, and a gecko. If I could get all the animals I wanted the house would be covered in them. Genesis 2:15 says “And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.” God gave man authority over animals, but that means that we should protect them and keep them safe. 

I love all of our animals. We wouldn’t ever have gotten a cat by ourselves. When I was little I always wanted a cat, but I wasn’t allowed to because mom is very allergic to them. One day when I was a preteen I was feeding my chickens in the backyard and I saw a small golden thing run through our yard. the next few days we tried to catch it and we did. after holding it once it came to our backdoor every day and wouldn’t stop looking through the back window. Parents didn’t want it inside the house and so we started putting a bowl outside with some milk in it. We went outside every day and it kept coming to snuggle us. Then we took it to the vet to see if it had rabies. we found out it was a girl, she was too young to have rabies, she was only about two weeks old when she came to us which is too young to be away from fer mother, and the end of her tail was dead so they cut it off. After that her tail is only half as long as it should be and she had to stay in our house until her tail scabbed. She got used to living in our house so we kept her. Mom isn’t allergic to this cat and she loves the cat, but only when the cat isn’t on the furniture. 

I chose pet care because I feel like it would be a great job for me and I’m great with animals. 

According to Seneca a mans reason is his unique good. The difference between man and animals is reason. A mans reason is to determine right from wrong. Animals are animals because they do not have reason.

The Julio-Claudian principate was a period of Roman emperors which started with Augustus then goes down to Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and last Nero. Right after the Julio-Claudian principate there was the Flavian Dynasty which had the emperors Vespasian, Titus, and finally, Domitian.

What would have been Orestes’ proper course of action, had he been living today? Why? Orestes is a character from the play “The Libation Bearers”  which was written by a Greek playwright named Aeschylus. Aeschylus was born in Eleusis, Greece 6th century and died in Gela, Italy in the 6th century. He was a famous ancient Greek because of the many plays he wrote. One of those plays is the libation bearers which I will write a little about in this paper. He is best known as “Father of Greek Tragedy.” 

“The Libation Bearers” is the second play to a trilogy. The series is about justice solved by a series of blood inside the house of the man Agamemnon. A lot of tragedies take place after the Trojan war and so did this one. The Trojan war affects this play. 

In this tragic play the main character Orestes has to face a difficult decision. His father was murdered and so Orestes swears to the god Apollo that he will get justice and kill whoever killed his father. A short time later Orestes finds out that it was his mother (Clytemnestra) who had killed his father because she had fallen in love with another man named Aegisthus and they had killed his father together. Orestes Doesn’t know what to do because if he doesn’t kill his mother the furies (Spirits the haunt and torment you until you die or fulfill your promise) of Apollo. And if he killed his mother her furies would be upon him. Orestes finally comes to the choice of killing his mother and flees to avoid the suffering of his mothers furies. Either of his choices would of caused suffering, but Orestes chose to avenge his father. 

Back then in Greece if a family member was murdered you had every right to murder the murderer. If Orestes was alive today he would have to take his problem to the court. The court would then decide what to do about Clytemnestra and Aegisthus. They would have gone to prison and that’s all Orestes could do about the murder of his father. I’m glad that today is not like back then because people would keep getting murdered for murdering a murderer. 

According to Wikipedia ” Gaius Julius Caesar was a Roman general and statesman. A member of the First Triumvirate, Caesar led the Roman armies in the Gallic Wars before defeating his political rival Pompey in a civil war, and subsequently became dictator from 49 BC until his assassination in 44 BC. He played a critical role in the events that led to the demise of the Roman Republic and the rise of the Roman Empire.” Julius Caesar was very important in the Empire. 

The Aeneid is considered an epic Latin poem. It was written by Virgil in between 29BC and 19BC. The Aeneid is about a Trojan who escapes the destruction of Troy and founds Rome. In the story Aeneas (a trojan) flees Troy on a ship and heads to Italy. Aeneas and the others on the ship are blown of course to a place called Carthage. There Dido the queen of Carthage falls deeply in love with Aeneas. When Dido wakes up one morning and finds that Aeneas has left she commits suicide. When another wind blows them of course to Sicily Aeneas’s dead father visits him in a dream and tells him to go to Italy. Aeneas resumes his journey and visits the underworld to meet his father and to see the future. When he leaves he sails to Latium where the king thinks that Aeneas will marry his daughter, but the queen wants her daughter to marry a local suiter. This ends up in a war. Aeneas wins the war, continues sailing, then founds Rome.

The business opportunity which most intrigued me this week is writing. By writing I mean being an author. I read lots of books and so does my brother Owen. Really I don’t buy books because either I get some for my birthday or Christmas, the other option is I wait for Owen to buy himself books then I read them. The books that I read are action packed and if I had nothing important to do I could just read them all day. Being an author sounds great for the first half, but not the second. I say this because the first half is writing the book which is fun. The second half is getting the book published and everything else after that. I have lots of great ideas for books I could write, if I become an author. I’m creative, I’ve read a lot of books, and I have all my brothers to give me some good ideas. If there are so much authors and so much books in the world then how will my book or books get read. Well first my family and friends would get told about it and then share it with their friends. And secondly I could sell it in bookstores and online. This job would be great.

What was Aeschylus’s view of the Trojan war? Aeschylus was born in 525BC in Eleusis, Greece. In 458BC he at Gela, Italy. In Greek history Aeschylus was known as “the father as tragedy.” He earned this name because he wrote many tragic plays. It was said that he wrote many plays, a lot of them are lost. His most famous play is probably “Agamemnon.” In this play he gives some of his ideas on the Trojan war. Though he only gives brief accounts on the famous and horrifying war. This play was hard for me to understand, but thankfully my teacher was talking me through it. 

The Trojan is a very famous war even though we have no idea if it existed or not. Many people believe that Troy really did exist and they spend their lives looking for it. Others search for Troy because they want to know if it existed. There is very little proof that the Trojan war existed and some people think that they will find it although we only know of Troy through stories. The war supposably lasted ten years. The Trojans were said to have lost the war and ended as a civilization. Their enemy was Greece and they also lost many men. 

The main character in the play Agamemnon was Agamemnon. In this play the Trojan war was so horrible that Agamemnon offered up a human sacrifice, his own daughter Iphigenia and didn’t even hesitate in the process. How wicked can you get? This was a sacrifice to the gods to settle down the war. He showed no mercy in the process and never even stopped for a second because he was murdering his daughter! Aeschylus was probably trying to say that the war effected the minds of people enough to kill their own children. The Trojans were wicked people and the war was so bad that they became even more wicked. Aeschylus is probably saying that the war ruined the minds of the people. 

The war had no justice in it. If someone killed a family member you and your family had every right to kill them. If you murder you get murdered. The men had no morals and without morals men become animals. Reason is what separates men from animals and is you have no reason you are an animal. Those are some of Aeschylus’s views on the Trojan war. 

The business which most intrigued me is piano teaching. My mom loves to play the piano and she is amazing at it. When she was younger she gave piano lessons. She also taught me a little. She practiced piano in college and her teacher said that she should play in concerts. So where is this heading. If I can learn the piano more, enough to teach then I can give other people piano lessons. This would be a great job for me because I love music and I already know the piano a little bit. 

Another business which most intrigued me is cooking. I love to cook. If I have the recipe, it’s time for a meal, I’m not busy , and if my mom doesn’t want to cook I might make something for the family, or if there’s not really enough to make something for the whole family I’ll just make everyone an egg. We probably won’t run out of eggs because I have chickens. I would need to get hired at a restaurant first and then start learning recipes. 

To me Learning piano is a little hard and it would be harder to teach it. Cooking is easy, but if I messed up on one meal that would be bad for the business. I love both of them, but each would be a challenge of it’s own.

What Specific changes occurred in Roman society as a result of the Struggle of the Orders? The Struggle of the Orders (also known as the Conflict of the Orders) was a struggle between commoners who were very poor and the aristocrats who were very rich. This happened in the ancient Roman Republic and lasted from 494BC to 287BC. In this struggle the commoners wanted to be equal politicly with the aristocrats. The commoners challenged the aristocrats to have control over Rome. Next the richer commoners demanded a place in the government while the poorer commoners had no jobs and many of them were in dept. Eventually the commoners left Rome to look for a better place to live. 

Because many of the people were leaving Rome the population was decreasing. Finally the government accepted some of the commoners into the government. Ten years later dept was banned.