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Essays 151 - 180
(Tracy). He traveled from place to place and although poor and impoverished at many points in his life, he was also warmly receive...
sees the development of his character because this is the focus of the story and his journey. One reads as Odysseus moves through ...
without specifically worrying about success or failure, "they cannot be stained by action" (Harrison, 1996). Hearing this, Arjuna ...
deliberation," much like Nestor had cautioned "Agamemnon against hasty judgment" (Gore on War). In both cases, despite any heeding...
in war. Helen had no power, and no women in the story had power. Helen was simply a symbol of beauty and purity and hence justifie...
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...
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...
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...
only by the military might of his chief Trojan rival Hector. Achilles courage was unwavering perhaps due in part to his connectio...
ultimately started the war, Priam, his father and the king of Troy, and Hector, the other son of Priam. While there are other impo...
ghost, a phantom-true, but no real breath of life" (23.122-23). This minimal survival apparently depends on the appropriate funera...
of the gods in these works appears to be more focused on generating chaos than introducing peace and tranquility to the universe. ...
ugliness of battle and death. Homers soldiers do not die cleanly and quickly; they suffer, they claw the ground; they cry out an...
Achilles is well aware that he is mortal and that his life will be brief, and Thetis recognition of his mortality "contrasts sharp...
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...
the foot of power!/Nothing care I for Zeus" (Aeschylus). In other words, Prometheus will not succumb to tyranny and a power that r...
as Achilles, this is the good life. He is not a character who seems to desire times of peace or quiet but rather a man who is happ...
and she wishes that she were "wife to a better man" (Homer Book VI). Through Helens eyes and, also, through Homers portrayal of He...
no power and they were possessions. So in that respect with Paris of Troy stealing something from Athens was cause enough for batt...
great deal of loss and death in his wake. But, he is not the power, the real power, behind the war and he really only seems to ser...
"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...
slave, and ironically enough, he is enslaved by the prophesy. "People of Thebes, my countrymen, look on Oedipus. He solved the fam...
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...
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...
of common suffering or accomplishment. Once the student working on this project sees these factors, it becomes obvious throughout ...
the student works on this project, he or she will want to consider the ways in which the story deals with legendary events that ma...
and Achilles argue over who has the "rights" to one of the "spoils of war," which in this case is a person, a girl who has already...