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What is considered a good life? Herodotus and Epicurus presents readers there depiction of a good life in their works, Persian Wars and “Letter to a Friend,� respectively. The ideas of a good life presented by Herodotus in Persian Wars and by Epicurus in “Letter to a Friend� both share identical aspects of a good life, but at the same time both works are distinct from one another.
One similarity between the two writers’ idea of a good life is that one must have respect for the divine whether it be a single god or many gods. In Persian Wars, Solon, an Athenian, tells Croesus of Sardis the story of brothers Cleobis and Bito. According to the story, there was “a great festival in honor of the goddess Hera at Argos� in which the brothers, along with their mother, had to travel a good distance by chariot. When the oxen have yet came in from the fields, the brothers decided to pull the chariot themselves in fear of being late to the festival. By doing this act, the......

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