When comparing Achilles and Christopher Reeves they both have many things in common. Achilles is a brave almost unstoppable warrior still the public sees him as a “god” because of how he fights and how great of a warrior he is. The public views Christopher Reeve as the personification of superman as an unstoppable superhero when he has many human weaknesses. Both Achilles and Christopher have human weaknesses and are both able to be killed or be injured. Achilles has the Achilles heel and Christopher Reeve has the horseback riding accident.…
He killed a lion with his bare hands, brought a boar alive back to King Eurystheus, and brought justice to a cruel barbaric king who fed human beings to his horses. These are just three of the amazing feats that this Greek hero accomplished. He was born of Zeus and a mortal woman. Hera tried to kill him twice, but it didn’t work out, even though he was driven insane and killed his wife and children. He worked for King Eurystheus for twelve years and was a great warrior.…
What kind of example does Achilles set for his fellow soldiers? How can they respect a man whose foolish actions took their friend’s lives? Surely some portion of the army will emulate Achilles, causing bickering and insubordination. Overall, the way Achilles responds to anger denotes a petulant and unappealing…
It all started when Spartans invaded the village him and his family lived in. They killed his family and all of his friends. This left him wanting…
Achilles abuses Hector’s body, dragging it around his dead companion’s tomb. The differences between heroes are not existed in their end only. Their personalities were quite different. Even Hector is the best general of the Troy, he is just a person, not a demigod like…
Achilles was a warrior who fought in the Trojan War. He was the son of Thetis and Peleus. Right after he was born, Achilles’s mother try to make him immortal by putting him in the river of Styx. It worked, but Odysseus was vulnerable at the heel of his foot. Like Odysseus, Achilles was both strong and a great leader.…
Hector strives to be courageous, in opposition to Achilles, who strives to have glory. As Hector leaves his wife knowing he will not return, he shows great courage saying, “but I could not show my face before the men or the women of Troy if I skulk like a coward out of the way” as he marches to his death (82). Homer sings that Achilles does not hunger for food, but instead hungers for glory, for when Patroclos fights in Achilles’ armor, Achilles’ tells Patroclos, “you may win honour and glory for me” (189). Even the courage in Hector, “Zeus increases in men or diminishes, according to his will, for he is lord of all”(240). Regardless of what strive the heroes, Hector and Achilles’ temper controls their actions and hardens their hearts.…
(Homer 519) Achilles triumphs through the battle, killing many Trojans before and after Hector and Tros. In short, the rush and thrill of the battle with the Trojans in book twenty of The Iliad leads Achilles to many confrontations, which ultimately end up in death for most of Achilles’ opponents. Continuing, Achilles’ brutal combat in The Iliad demonstrates the way the Homeric Greeks viewed violence. They viewed violence as just a way of life that was enchanted and…
Achilles is known as the greatest warrior among the Achaeans since he is invulnerable (except for the heel), and he can destroy a whole army just by his own. However, he sometimes ignores his society’s cultural norms because he sees some of its restraints- for instance, he sees many faults…
You will eat your heart out, raging with remote for this dishonour done by you to the rarest of Achaeans (A 289-295) In this speech, it shows how much Achilles values honour and the amount of hatred he had towards Agamemnon who dishonoured him. This was caused due to Agamemnon who took Briseis, his symbol of pride. Because his symbol of pride was taken away, Achilles grew in rage and did not participate in the war. Overall, personal honour and excellence plays a main role in the warrior’s motivations, like Hector who fights to fulfill his duty and to fight for his family.…
Achilles, just like Hector, affirms that he is self-aware of the importance of his own life just by saying nothing is worth my life. This shows that he values it above all else. Even though at times it seems as if Achilles will never die, he knows that he will and he does not wish to relinquish it…
“Sing, goddess, of Achilles ruinous anger which brought ten thousand pains to the Achaeans, and cast the souls of many stalwart heroes to Hades, and their bodies to the dogs and birds of prey.” Achilles was the central character and greatest warrior in Homer’s Iliad. This epic poem begins with a quarrel between Agamemnon and Achilles over a female that had been awarded to Achilles as a prize of honor. Agamemnon takes the woman and Achilles withdraws from fighting in a rage and remains withdrawn from war throughout the poem.…
Moreover, Homer characterizes Achilles as a violent warrior in order to objectify him and illustrate dismantling effects wars have on humans. The Greeks by promoting and engaging in continuous warfare, limited their definition of honor, effectively promoting a social system where honor is gained through the heinousness of war, instead of through benevolence and logical actions. As a result, Achilles strives to become a praised warrior, in an environment where barbaric behavior, like the total destruction of Hector’s body, is tolerated as it executed within the context of war. In contrast, Homer presents Achilles’s encounter with Priam to highlight the difficulty found behind escaping the death , devastation, and the…
Achilles is shown in a much more favorable light by Homer. Homer describes Achilles as fueled by grief for his men and the Achaeans in the camp (1.64). He is strong in the face of handing over Brises, despite it affronting his honor and pride (1.398). Achilles is the voice of reason and good for the Achaeans through the first book of the Iliad.…
In the Iliad, we are introduced to many great warriors, kings, women, and gods. Of all these characters, Achilles is the greatest and most complex figure to appear in the story. He was the most physically capable Greek at the time and feared all across the Aegean. On the other hand, he is plagued with numerous character flaws that may prevent readers from recognizing him as a true hero. Despite these flaws, Achilles manages to retain the attention and interest of the reader.…