Aeneid And Iliad: How They Relate To The Modern World
The Relation of Iliad and Aeneid to Modern Society
The world we live in today isn't the same as it was a couple hundred or thousand of years ago. But we still live in kind of the same way and concept. As each year, decade, and/or century goes by it gets more complicated and more technologically advanced, which makes it more difficult in a way and easier in another way. The style we live in also changes. The world around us changes as well. The Iliad and Aeneid are two examples of books that relate to our modern livings today.
The Iliad is about two groups of people. Which are the Achaeans and the Trojans. The conflict in this book was because of Chryseis and Briseis, which were capture by the Achaeans. The world today is still corrupt just as it was back then. People still get kidnapped no matter if they are young, old, pretty, ugly, big or small. People say that the United States is a safe place to stay but it actually isn't. It might be safer to live in compared to other countries. There are many ignorant people who live in this world who bring dreadfulness and fear to the world we live in. Bin Laden can be a great example. He is a terrible person who has brought terror to the world. Because of his halfhearted self he killed thousands of innocent people because he didn't like us and that he was jealous of how we lived and how our government was like and also we were better than him and his people were. We have wars all the time between neighboring countries just as they were in the Iliad. People today cant live in peace and harmony. People have dreamt to live in a peaceful and safe place but we cannot succeed if our attitude about living is this way. In wars counties always have allies. We still have allies now; if we didn't have any we would probably wouldn't be able to win a war. When honorable people die they have proper burials for honor and bravery. In the book Patroclus and Hector were both respectable people on one side or the other who died in the fierce battle. They were both appropriately buried.
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