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Essay Archive - How Is The Greek Idea of a Sound Mind and Body Essential for The Successful Characters of The Odyssey?
How Is The Greek Idea of a Sound Mind and Body Essential for The Successful
Characters of The Odyssey?
If one were to only have a very fit and strong body, lacking mental ability,
to the Greeks it would not suffice. If a man were merely smart and intelligent,
without much physical capability, the Greeks would feel that he is not complete.
They believed an individual must have have both, a well developed mind and a fit
body, not only one or the other, to be ideal. This is the Greek concept of a
sound mind and body. In Homer's Odyssey, Odysseus....
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