Pride, Passion, and Fate

1. For most Greeks, the universe was an ordered place that operated according to moral rules. Pride, arrogance, and rash passion all called forth the forces of destiny, pushing the transgressor ever closer to his or her fate. The Greeks did not, however, have a single uniform understanding of fate and its operations. Reread the excerpt from Aeschylus' play The Persians on page 93, from Euripides' Medea on pages 94 and 95, and from Thucydides' The Peloponnesian War on page 98. When you are finished, write a short essay comparing the three authors' ideas about the role of fate in human affairs. Is there anything on which all three would agree?