Iliad, is an ancient Greek epic by homer. The epic sets by the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy by Greeks. The epic start with the events of argument about rage between Agamemnon, the king of Achaeans and Achilles, the great warrior of Achaeans. During the epic, Homer engages different type of gods including Zeus to make the epic special. During the war, there are many incidents happen among different characters including gods. On the other hand Dante, the divine comedy, is narrative poem describes Dante’s imaginary journey in hell. During his journey he discovers layers of hell. He sees all the souls are suffering in specific circle for their specific sins along his journey. This paper will consider four characters from Iliad putting in Dante’s hell depending their sins while they were living.
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She is a forceful benefactress of the Achaeans because of her anger at the Trojans over the judgement of son of Priam, Paris. Additionally, she repeatedly argues with Zeus, over his compassion for the Trojans. In the book four she is saying, “Awesome son of Cronus! What a thing to say! How dare you undo all my hard work. The sweat I seated driving my poor team to raise an army against Priam and his sons! Do it” (4.33-6). In those lines she expresses her anger, and we can also notice that her anger is misleading to her husband, Zeus. I believe this is her desire to make the war happen and destroy Troy. Although, Zeus wants to end the war in peach in some ways between Trojans and Achaeans but Hera, his wife doesn’t want it that way. Zeus motioned that Achaeans should win the war after Menelaus won the duel. On the other hand, Hera disagreed with her husband and she wants to see the city of Troy burned to the ground as she said she won’t ruin her ‘hard work’. Basically, after her vigorous speech toward Zeus, he continues to prepare for the war. For instance, he sent Athena to the battle field to start the
She is a forceful benefactress of the Achaeans because of her anger at the Trojans over the judgement of son of Priam, Paris. Additionally, she repeatedly argues with Zeus, over his compassion for the Trojans. In the book four she is saying, “Awesome son of Cronus! What a thing to say! How dare you undo all my hard work. The sweat I seated driving my poor team to raise an army against Priam and his sons! Do it” (4.33-6). In those lines she expresses her anger, and we can also notice that her anger is misleading to her husband, Zeus. I believe this is her desire to make the war happen and destroy Troy. Although, Zeus wants to end the war in peach in some ways between Trojans and Achaeans but Hera, his wife doesn’t want it that way. Zeus motioned that Achaeans should win the war after Menelaus won the duel. On the other hand, Hera disagreed with her husband and she wants to see the city of Troy burned to the ground as she said she won’t ruin her ‘hard work’. Basically, after her vigorous speech toward Zeus, he continues to prepare for the war. For instance, he sent Athena to the battle field to start the