People can be effected in many ways by reading Greek stories or Aesop's fable. Most people think that Greek tales and fables are just there to be read and entertain kids or adults. But many people don't really recognize the lessons that they are teaching you. Some people actually see the lesson but they think that those lessons were useful back then in the past, but Greek tales and fables could proof them wrong. There are many lessons everyone can learn but one lesson everyone might like is that having pleasure is not worth being harmed after.
My claim (having pleasure is not worth getting harmed) can be supported by many stories from the past, but the one that is very interesting is “Black Ships Before Troy.” This relates to the claim in two ways. One way that this story is like the claim is that in the story three goddesses wanted to earn the golden apple to know who is the fairest.So the goddesses tried to bribe him. Athene said that she “promised him supreme wisdom” (Sutcliff).Hera “promised him vast wealth and power and honour” (Sutcliff).And the last goddess Aphrodite “whispered that she would give him a wife as fair as herself” (Sutcliff). And one goddess gets chosen which is Aphrodite and that is how the Trojan war started. The pleasure starts…show more content… The fable “The Swollen Fox,” is another fable that supports the claim. This story is very similar to “The Flies and The Honey-Pot.” First a fox finds some bread and meat in a hole. He didn’t think it through so he just ate it greedily, just like the flies. But when the fox ate the food inside the hole he got fat and he got stuck for several days.And after that a fox comes by and says "Ah, you will have to remain there, my friend, until you become such as you were when you crept in, and then you will easily get out” (Aesop). This matches my claim because at first the fox has pleasure eating the food. But he got harmed because he stayed inside that little
