CAS RN 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Cebes, List Of Races In Farscape, Iliad
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Tells the story of the greek struggle to rescue helen (greek queen) from her trojan abductors: a tale of blood shed and heroism: battlefield is a place of activity. Odyssey (720 bce: sequel, follows greek warrior, small, vulnerable ship, his travels were long, achilles dreams of his dead companion, patroklus. Socrates writes poetry to clear his conscience before he was going to die o he spoke to aesop about when he was going to die o section a: when the philosopher avoids suicide but welcomes death. Cebes asks socrates how it is not legitimate to not do ones own self violence. Socrates says that you must not lose heart, he says sometimes death is better than life, he says maybe it has good reason, he says we are all locked up and must release ourselves. He says that he believes that we are men in the care of gods and their possessions o section b.