can anybody help me compare and contrast euripides and platos views in the bacchae and the apology?

Question

by the way, i did read the texts, i have done research, i just am having a hard time trying to find valid comparrisons...they seem so different to me! so dont think i am some slacker, i just thought that maybe if i got some others points of view it would give me some ideas.

i need to compare and contrast thier views on "know thyself"

Answer 1

no

Answer 2

Whoa, you're trying to compare apples and oranges here. Euripides was a playwright and Plato was a philosopher (who, by the way, thought poets, such as Euripides, should be banned from the ideal society.)
Views on what, exactly? The Bacchae is a play and it's about opposing forces:skepticism versus piety, reason versus irrationality, Greek versus foreign, male versus
female/androgynous, civilization versus savagery
It's extremely complex, and any attempt to boil it down to basic themes will oversimplify the depth and richness of the work.

The Apology, on the other hand, is in the widest sense an example of forensic oratory, in which Socrates defends himself in court against his accusers.

Answer 3

I am glad I read Johnslat's excellent answer. I was planning to launch into a tirade about doing one's own homework. But I bow to his expertise, instead. I hate to say it, "Questioning Person," but any teacher or professor who would ask such a question, let alone require such readings, is not likely to be impressed by anything u have found on the internet. He or she probably would have more respect for a student who had actually done the reading, no matter if his/her answer was deep enough, philosophical enough, or, perish the thought, researched enough.

Answer 4

I guess not. All I've read is The Republic.