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.
I am not 100% sure why he would want to censor Hesiod. But I do have a general guess of why he would. I think that the Hesiod witting is either supports ideas of the gods that not everyone agrees on and/or it supports immoral ideas like the book: "how to be a hitman" That is the best I can come up with on why someone would want to ban or censor that book.
What are Homer and Hesiod guilty of?
They wrote false stories about how the gods fought with each other.
What are the two main characteristics of “god” and what are the laws/principles of story telling based on those characteristics?
I am not quite sure what the two main characteristics of 'god' are but i think these quotes are what I'm supposed to be looking for:
1. "Zeus has two jars standing on the floor of his palace, full of fates, good in one and evil one and evil in the other"
2. "God implants a fault in man, when he wishes to destroy a house utterly."
3. I think the laws of story telling is to have a false and true story, and that you always start with something false. I'm positive either one or both of these answers are wrong because the question ask why these are related.
Compare what you wrote in your personal reflection above (#1) with what Plato wrote. How close were you to what Plato wrote?
I was pretty close. I wrote that Hesiod's work would want to be censored because it sopported ideas that not every one agreed on about the gods and that is exactly what Plato wrote in his writing.
Monday, March 26, 2007
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