through suffering comes knowledge
Through Suffering Comes Knowledge
There’s a universal knowledge that through pain comes the strength to prevail. One must endure suffering to appreciate the joys and wisdoms of life. This same view is believed by the Greeks that one shall suffer to gain knowledge and wisdom. The trials the characters in the Iliad, Odyssey, and Oedipus, the King faced are what led Greek society to stand where it does today. The heroes all agonized in some form for their people to build their community and prevail against obstacles centuries later. In the Iliad, the story of the Trojan War is the backbone to the turmoil the warriors faced. Both the Greek and the Trojans saw tremendous loss on both sides including the destruction of homes, death of loved ones, and the deterioration of their pride and the value of their names. Technically, the Greeks may have won the war, but in the end, no one finished as winners. “There is nothing alive more agonized than man of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.” They all lost a part of themselves; and even after the win, the survivors of the Greeks began to question the worth of such prize and accomplishments of beating the Trojans. Achilles, one of the strongest known warriors of the Greeks led his country to a victory, yet to say he is valued the win would be false. Throughout the whole book, Achilles questioned the worthiness of all the fame and glory the warriors of his time adored and sought after time after time. Using Achilles as the prime example to demonstrate the Greeks belief to knowledge and wisdom, it is of definite observation that he was the sole contender to back such idea. Achilles lost his best friend and partner. He lost a part of himself. He unraveled completely as a person, seemingly turning insane at one point and yet, he is the only one that understood what the Greeks know today. A person isn’t of importance because of the wars they won or by their possessions, but by what they can offer to
There’s a universal knowledge that through pain comes the strength to prevail. One must endure suffering to appreciate the joys and wisdoms of life. This same view is believed by the Greeks that one shall suffer to gain knowledge and wisdom. The trials the characters in the Iliad, Odyssey, and Oedipus, the King faced are what led Greek society to stand where it does today. The heroes all agonized in some form for their people to build their community and prevail against obstacles centuries later. In the Iliad, the story of the Trojan War is the backbone to the turmoil the warriors faced. Both the Greek and the Trojans saw tremendous loss on both sides including the destruction of homes, death of loved ones, and the deterioration of their pride and the value of their names. Technically, the Greeks may have won the war, but in the end, no one finished as winners. “There is nothing alive more agonized than man of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.” They all lost a part of themselves; and even after the win, the survivors of the Greeks began to question the worth of such prize and accomplishments of beating the Trojans. Achilles, one of the strongest known warriors of the Greeks led his country to a victory, yet to say he is valued the win would be false. Throughout the whole book, Achilles questioned the worthiness of all the fame and glory the warriors of his time adored and sought after time after time. Using Achilles as the prime example to demonstrate the Greeks belief to knowledge and wisdom, it is of definite observation that he was the sole contender to back such idea. Achilles lost his best friend and partner. He lost a part of himself. He unraveled completely as a person, seemingly turning insane at one point and yet, he is the only one that understood what the Greeks know today. A person isn’t of importance because of the wars they won or by their possessions, but by what they can offer to