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line "yet this is the shepherd of the city, wise, comely and resolute" points up the difference in the qualities that the king sho...
book, Ares is battling Diomedes; he thrusts at him but Athena knocks his spear away and Diomedes stabs the god. Ares flies up to O...
Achilles is well aware that he is mortal and that his life will be brief, and Thetis recognition of his mortality "contrasts sharp...
and also provided insight into the character when she brazenly broke with firmly held tradition. For example, in Homers Iliad and ...
we mortals bear perforce, although we suffer; for they are much stronger than we. But now I will teach you clearly, telling you th...
withdraws from the battlefield, refusing to fight. This quarrel typifies how the Greeks valued personal honor above all other cons...
the conflict in terms of an insult to his personal honor. Homer writes that Achilles responded by telling Agamemnon, "Ah me, cloth...
of one another which is often the case in families. Hector is a leader and is brave and strong and incredibly able and skilled. Pa...
occurs near the end of the conflict. These two warriors fight over who has the greater claim to a captive woman who is also the d...
slave, and ironically enough, he is enslaved by the prophesy. "People of Thebes, my countrymen, look on Oedipus. He solved the fam...
"Hear me," he cried, "O god of the silver bow, that protectest Chryse and holy Cilla and rulest Tenedos with thy might, hear me oh...
and the Greek forces suffer mightily without their hero. Later in the narrative, his anger propels him into battle. But, just as a...
that allows the poem to celebrate or immortalize its national culture (Epic Poetry). The distinguishing characteristics of Homers...
in the following: "Oh be it ours to come to Theseus famous realm, a land of joy! Never, never let me see Eurotas swirling tide, ha...
being mindful of his station. Agamemnon is the king of the Achaeans, and Nestor has no designs on Agamemnons position. He does w...
In a more recent translation we note a great deal of anger and a powerful sense of revenge, as we see in the following excerpt fro...
ugliness of battle and death. Homers soldiers do not die cleanly and quickly; they suffer, they claw the ground; they cry out an...
the foot of power!/Nothing care I for Zeus" (Aeschylus). In other words, Prometheus will not succumb to tyranny and a power that r...
ghost, a phantom-true, but no real breath of life" (23.122-23). This minimal survival apparently depends on the appropriate funera...
but also by the fact that he is the king, and his people protect him rather than urging him onto the front lines as they might a y...
granted authority" (Knox, 1990, p. 33). Hector is a man of peace born into a time of war, and therefore forced to fight (Knox, 1...
In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at "The Iliad" and the 2004 film, "Troy". The changes in the latter are explained throu...
This essay presented an argument that Chaucer's "The Knight's Tale" reflects the ideals of Homer's The Iliad. Four pages in lengt...
This research paper/essay discusses the "Iliad" and the "Aeneid" as two epic poems that mirror the values of Greek and Roman socie...
This essay discusses Homer's ancient classic epic, The Iliad, and the film Troy (2004, directed by William Petersen), indicating ...
This essay utilizes a feministic approach and an anthropological approach to interpretation of Homer's Iliad. Eight pages in lengt...
of the gods in these works appears to be more focused on generating chaos than introducing peace and tranquility to the universe. ...
these sites are similar. For the purposes of this paper five such sites were visited with the intent of comparing and contrasting...
In three pages this paper examines the events presented in Homer's epic in comparison with the burial rituals of Egypt in a consid...
These two classic epics are contrasted and compared regarding the perspectives on death and immortality in the afterlife contained...