Lecture 4: Outline
Euripides’ Bacchae
(433-603)
- Techniques of
persuasion that Pentheus and Dionysus use in their first face-to-face
confrontation
- Display of
religious and political power
- Pentheus’
beastliness (539-550)
Plato’s Protagoras
(320c-322d)
- Epimetheus’
distribution of qualities among the mortal races
- Imbalance in the
distribution of qualities between animals and humans
- Prometheus the
thief
- Wisdom in the
practical arts vs. political wisdom
- Justice and shame