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Assignment:
Answer the following questions:
1. What is "hubris," and why is Minos guilty of this in the story of the Minotaur?
2. Why is it that, after she provides Theseus with a magic sword and a "clue" to help him defeat the Minotaur, Aradne ends up abandoned on an island by the Athenian hero instead of becoming his bride back in Athens?
3. For the Sophists, debate was a chance to demonstrate one's rhetorical skills such that they were ready to argue for the validity of anything regardless of how they felt, personally, about the subject. Why did Socrates have a problem with this?
4. In the play Antigone by Sophocles, where two brothers die fighting each other and their sister is condemned to death for trying to bury her brother the "traitor," what is the underlying tragedy?
5. What is the "Golden Mean" and how is this principle relevant to Aristotle's preferred form of government?