Hesiod claims that when men are honest to other men, and judge them fairly, they will be rewarded with prosperity, but when men are dishonest and do not judge fairly they bring upon themselves evil (53). In the country of the Cyclopes, one Cyclopes named Polyphemus had taken to eating Odysseus’s men, and Odysseus and his men were able to maim him after the gods breathed bravery into them (36). What Polyphemus did is wrong, and Odysseus and his men did what is right, to correct the situation. Book one of the Iliad details Apollo’s priest coming to buy back his daughter from Agamemnon, but the king refuses, and consequently Apollo sets a plague on the Greeks until the priest’s daughter is returned (2-14). The Iliad and the Odyssey both contain wrongs done that are righted, and Hesiod outlines what happens when right and wrongs are done. Hesiod says that evil falls upon those who did erroneous tasks, such as the Greeks not releasing the priest’s daughter and Polyphemus losing his sight, and good is brought upon those who do fair or just things, such as Odysseus’s men escaping the Cyclops and the plague being lifted on the Greeks when they return the
Hesiod claims that when men are honest to other men, and judge them fairly, they will be rewarded with prosperity, but when men are dishonest and do not judge fairly they bring upon themselves evil (53). In the country of the Cyclopes, one Cyclopes named Polyphemus had taken to eating Odysseus’s men, and Odysseus and his men were able to maim him after the gods breathed bravery into them (36). What Polyphemus did is wrong, and Odysseus and his men did what is right, to correct the situation. Book one of the Iliad details Apollo’s priest coming to buy back his daughter from Agamemnon, but the king refuses, and consequently Apollo sets a plague on the Greeks until the priest’s daughter is returned (2-14). The Iliad and the Odyssey both contain wrongs done that are righted, and Hesiod outlines what happens when right and wrongs are done. Hesiod says that evil falls upon those who did erroneous tasks, such as the Greeks not releasing the priest’s daughter and Polyphemus losing his sight, and good is brought upon those who do fair or just things, such as Odysseus’s men escaping the Cyclops and the plague being lifted on the Greeks when they return the