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"The Great Transformation" by Karen Armstrong
Pages 163-173, 7th Century Greece
Knowledge
1. How did the Greek's path of social development differ from that of India?
2. How was the poet, Hesiod different from Homer in his writing? (p. 164-5)
3. "Hesiod created a new version of an old Indo-European myth, The Four Ages of Man." (p. 166-7)
- Compare this with the Biblical account in Daniel Chapter 2.
- What is different about the conclusions of the two stories?
4. What did Hesiod conclude about the path the Greeks should follow? (p, 167)
5. What was the point of the story of Prometheus? (p. 168)
6. What woman in the Old Testament echoes Pandora?
7. What caused the rise of the tyrants and what lessons did the Greeks learn from it? (p,170)
8. How does the section on tyrants relate to current U. S. politics?
9. How did technology change Greek society? How is it changing our society?
10. What was the Axial Age ethic of kenosis (selflessness) developed in Greece? (p,171-2)
11. How did it affect the relationship of ruler and farmer and the language of interaction?
12. Was Sparta an outlier in the social structures and rituals of the poleis? (p. 172-3)
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