The Glorification Of Glory And Honor In Homer's Odyssey

Glorification and honor are essential to classic characters. Ever since hero are the quintessence of the society from which occur, Greek heroes exist conforming to veneration and glorification, in all their different appearances. Glorification and veneration cause the Homeric conflict that claims the existence of innumerable men, and form its evolution at every staging. The fall of Troy is “a thing… whose glory shall perish never (Homer, Iliad 2.324)”. The aim of the Greeks is the prominence that re-echoes even after death, and they do not allow anything stand on their way. The glorification of the individual, and community docent their every action and answer. Glorification and veneration elucidate the hero, and hence are the justification for all that happen in Homer’s lliad. …show more content…
And both truly never resolved their conflict because both two individuals have decided to die in their honor and dignity rather relinquish their power and honor for the other and perish in shame. Their quest for hedge of this characteristics in all their numerous forms were the dynamic push behind the actions of Agamemnon and Achilles. Glory and honor was the reason they went to battle, refused to relinquish Achilles’s reward, battle with friends, defeated by numerous comrades and be away from family, and home for long. In the Homer lliad, glory and veneration were life, and not having those two was not living a worthy life. Therefore, Agamemnon is a king who is true to himself and the power he possess, as they are his existence and he cannot do without it. With this writing of my mine, I believe that I have elucidated clearly my point of views as regarding king Agamemnon and Achilles and how each other both view power and honor in their different perspective, and the way they lived their lives with their loved ones, and those around them. But at the same time for