Political Science 2237E Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Iliad, Machismo
26 Sep 2018
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Homer says that humans are social creatures, need other people. To be isolated is to not be living a human life, not a natural sort of existence. In this context, talented males are the ones who have emotional needs that need to be ful lled, they desire status, honour and power. This is a world of con ict, violence and danger. Idea that humans are religious, everyone believes that the gods exist because they continually intervene in peoples lives. The gods have the ability to place ideas in peoples head. In the iliad the goods can place both good and bad ideas in peoples heads, in the. People can resist the ideas if they are not in their character anyways. The books take for granted the idea of female inferiority, but this is based on physical inferiority. Thrasymacus has a higher status than both mother and grandfather.
