Word Economy
Exercises Answers
Below are some possible answers to the word economy exercises provided. Naturally there are many ways of revising these sentences to make them clearer and more concise. Those suggested above may not even be the most effective revisions. Play around with the sentences for a while and see if you can't come up with
1. Hesiod, if the decision were his, would have a race of men that would make themselves responsible for preserving honor and perpetuating a resounding atmosphere under which all men would be compelled to treat one another with mutual respect and refrain from perpetrating wrong onto one another.
If Hesiod had been given the power to direct man's progress human society would be one in which men treated one another with respect and refrained from harming others.
2. A reader whose experience has been characterized by Western society will find that this idea of justice, i.e. the "crime" followed by retribution and the pleasing deed followed by rewards, is indeed not at all foreign and consequently rather uninteresting.
A reader who has been exposed to the principles Western society will find the notion of "retributive justice" to be both familiar and unremarkable.
3. Its precepts are binding in that the succeeding tiers, which play more active roles in the administration of justice, must adhere to them.
The succeeding tiers, though playing more active roles in the administration of justice, must adhere to the precepts of the first.
4. Hesiod is a lucky man in that he is free of the angst associated with the knowledge of the existence of injustice.
Hesiod is a lucky man because the knowledge that injustice exists has not embittered him.
5. In describing the nature of Eros, one begins with the Theogeny of Hesiod in which the birth of the cosmos occurs through the emergence of the goddesses of Chaos and Gaia. Into this black void Eros is born, "the fairest of the deathless gods," whose existence, as a catalyst of procreation, is the means by which all gods thereafter are generated.
According to Hesiod's Theogeny the cosmos originated with the emergence of the goddesses Chaos and Gaia. Eros-- "the fairest of the deathless gods"-- is born into this black void and is thereafter known as the procreative force without which the other deities would never have existed.
6. Their influence upon gods and men alike is such that the areas of the body that are affected by either Love or Strife are mutual to both.
Love and Strife are similar in that they affect the same areas of the body.
7. We see this drastic switch to the virtues of reason quite clearly in the work of the Athenian historian Herodotus. Herodotus depicts a method of reasoned historical exploration so advanced from the works of earlier writers such as Homer, where there is absolutely no questioning of fact, that we are compelled to examine exactly how he derives the body of his narratives.
The Athenian historian, Herodotus, emphasizes the virtues of reason to a greater extent than earlier writers such as Homer. Herodotus' method of historical analysis is much more advanced than the methods of his predecessors and has become a topic of great scholastic interest.