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Homer–When Diomedes’s chariot driver urges him to retreat, Diomedes refuses. Why?

Plutarch–According to Plutarch’s account of Alcibiades’s youth, Alcibiades had all of the following advantages except:

Pindar–When Pindar composes odes for victorious athletes, he feels the same kind of joy that:

Pindar–When Pindar writes of the wrestler Alkimedon, he makes a comparison to learning and teaching: “it is folly [to teach] if one hath not first learnt, for without trial the mind wavereth.” What does this suggest about excellence?

Homer–According to Apollo, gods have the same relation to humans that humans do to:

Homer–When Aphrodite appears on the battlefield in order to save her son Aeneas, what does Diomedes do?

Homer–Throughout this passage, Diomedes fights so ferociously and magnificently that some Trojans like Aeneas wonder whether he is actually:

Aristotle–Aristotle subdivides “things that are found in the soul” into three categories. To which does virtue or excellent belong?

Pindar–According to Pindar, grace and excellence are distributed randomly and don’t last forever.

Homer–What is the object or purpose of “the strength and courage” Athena gives to Diomedes?