Talk:Myth of Er

message: This article says:
"The tale introduces the idea that moral people are rewarded and immoral people punished after death."
If one reads the articles "hell" and "sheol" one will have confirmations of the previous affirmation, for it talks about Hades and Sheol being an afterlife place where everyone goes independently of one's moral conduct during life.
However, the article "Greek underworld" says that the Homeric Hymns introduced the idea of the paradisical realm... So I ask myself, it was Homer or Plato that introduced the idea that moral people are rewarded and immoral people punished after death? In the article "Hades" we will find affirmations that confirm what is in the article "Greek underworld" and that are not coeherent with what one finds in the articles "hell" and "sheol", for it says that in Hades there was Tartarus, a deep, gloomy part of hades used as a dungeon of torment and suffering.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.204.199.161 (talk) 18:42, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  doubt 

message: I admit it's been a while since I have read the Myth of Er, but it didn't seem that reward and punishment was the point of it.  It's true, reward and punishment are mentioned, but are not given a lot of time in the story. It focuses more on what comes after. It seems more about accepting one's lot in life. If I remember, Agamemmnon had to draw last, because he had been great in life, and what is left for him is a lowly obscure next life. He then claims that this is the life he would have drawn even if he could have drawn first.--RLent 22:22, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Reward and punishment?"

message: The articles "Er (Plato)" and "Myth of Er" should be merged into "Myth of Er." I might do it if I get excited about it. Jonathan Tweet 19:24, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Evidently, this was DONE. Finell (Talk) 03:41, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  merge 

message: this piece dwells upon the moral of the story before delivering the story even in outline. in essence the myth of er is the legend of a person who visited the otherworld and on reviving gave an account of it (including fate, reincarnation by free will and the astrological cosmos). Redheylin (talk) 00:31, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  lede 

message: Before anything I precise that I'm french, so please excuse my english. I had a french book of The Republic by Plato and it is sayed, here in the notes concerning the extract about the Myth of Er, that Clement of Alexandria says that Er is in reality no other than Zoroaster (the first well-known prophet of the history(what I think)). Maybe this information could be sayed in the article. Of course, I don't know wether if Er is in reality Zarathoustra or not, but the thing I'm sure and certain (you can trust and believe me for these kind of things) is that in this book it was wrote that Clement of Alexandria say that Er is Zoroaster. I don't have the book, I don't know where he is, but I remember a little, and go to find you the referencies of this particular (french?) edition of The Republic. Thanks! Y.W(Real initials)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.202.45.240 (talk) 18:36, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  observation 

message: In the lead, to what does "(10.614-10.621)" refer? Finell (Talk) 18:26, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The location of the myth in Plato's Republic. Book ten, sections 614 to 621. 2.25.142.23 (talk) 16:02, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question about 10.614-10.621 

message: Necessitas seems a more judicious choice for en.wiki . Lycurgus (talk) 02:16, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Honorific &rarr; Latin 

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