1. Prometheus Bound VS The Iliad
Iliad Persuasion is a technique that has been used as far back as historians can track language (Encyclopaedia Britannica V.12, p.334). Persuasion is utilized in many of the Greek stories, including Prometheus Bound, by Aeschylus, and The Iliad, by Homer. The art of persuasion is best exhibited in these passages: lines 308-31 in Prometheus Bound, and book twenty-two, lines thirty-seven to seventy-eight in The Iliad. ... Priam, the king of Troy, gets similar results in his attempt at persuading Hector, the best worrier of the Trojans, during a scene in The Iliad. ... On the other hand, i...
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