City College of San Francisco Importance of the Ancient Greek Religion Questions

Gonna write a liitle essay about this topic

Need help to make some outline to make me have a idea.

All you need is write about 2/3 or one page outline for this 3 essay topic. (which mean will be total 2.5 -3 pages)

1. Consider the importance of religion in Ancient Greece. How did religion intersect with morality and authority? What were the real or imagined consequences of disregarding religious beliefs? In your answer, you must discuss—and analyze similarities and differences between—at least two of the following: the assigned selections from Homer (Bailkey and Lim, no. 16); the assigned selections from Hesiod (Bailkey and Lim, no. 17); Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex; and Plato’s Apology of Socrates.

2. Consider the depictions of Athens in the assigned selections from Plutarch’s Life of Solon and from Thucydides’ History. What are the Athenians shown to value in each text? Are there any internal contradictions within the texts? In what respects are these portrayals of Athens similar, and in what respects do they differ? How might the development of Athens in the time between Solon and Thucydides account for the differences?

3. Consider the role of women, both human and divine, in the assigned selections from Homer’s Iliad. In what ways and to what extent do they interact with other characters in the poem? Are the female characters given agency, or even voices? Do the depictions of divine women and human women differ significantly, and, if so, how? Keeping the assigned secondary source readings in mind, what might this say about the place of women in Archaic Greek society?