The city that the Furies are used to dominating quickly becomes simply founded on the Furies who take a subservient place to Apollo and the new gods. ... Plato shows the first distinction in the two philosopher's theories on justice by presenting justice as a conflict through two different people in Euthyphro. Socrates was convicted for corrupting the youth of the city and for innovation regarding religion. ... Through his teaching, Socrates was also charged with corrupting the youth of the city. ... Euthyphro says that the two men simply spoke "of divine matters in the assembly,&qu...

• Word Count: 2577
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy (Ilium) by a coalition of Greek states, it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles. ... Then the epic narrative takes up events prophesied for the future, such as Achilles' looming death and the sack of Troy, prefigured and alluded to more and more vividly, so that when it reaches an end, the poem has told a more or less complete tale of the Trojan War. ... Setting place of the poem is Troy (a city in what is now northwestern Turkey) and its imme...

• Word Count: 8864
• Approx Pages: 35
• Grade Level: High School