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Opposites Dont Always Attract

"The Cyclops do not concern themselves over Zeus of the aegis, nor any of the rest of the blessed gods, since we are far better that they - Finally, when Homer does allow the Greeks to have any imperfections, their vices seem rather tiny in comparison to the evils the foreigners perpetrate. .
             Although Aeschylus' Persians is a close historical account of the ill-fated second Persian expedition, it is still not free of the Greek writers bias of foreigners. In his work Aeschylus presents the differences of the Persians as their key downfall. He shows their luxury and apparent lack of belief in god as their major differences from the Greeks, and he makes it very apparent to the reader that these differences are cause of the Persian downfall. "It was some Power " Something not human " whose weight tipped the scales of luck and cut our forces down. Gods kept Athens safe for her goddess."" Aeschylus makes no other account for Persian failure or Greek success other than these tragic differences between the two cultures and ends his story with the Persians lamenting their loss, a quality they share with the Greeks, and the only thing that puts them in a positive light before the Greek audience because it shows remorse for their transgression. .
             There were many Greek writers beyond the poets like Homer and play writes like Aeschylus who also makes the differences of foreigners seem extreme and use these differences to show that the Greeks were more civilized. Even a great historian like Herodotus could not forgo this element of Greek literature when he wrote The Histories. Among his many historically accurate accounts he threads in stories about the many different peoples of the Aegean and most of these stories show how these foreigners were different from the "civilized- Greeks. Stories like Solon's encounter with Croesus, who's "false- idea of happiness was wealth or the tale of Scythians murdering children and feeding their remains to the king of Media.


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