Achaeans

Each work of literature that has ever been written has had one universal purpose: to tell a story. Each character is unique to the development of a story and such a justification holds serve with Homer’s The Odyssey and Tale of a Thousand and One Nights. Each respective novel has a narrator that serves as cadence to the plot of the lives of the characters, which provides insight to how and why things happen throughout the course of the novel. Homer highlights the typical Greek tragedy through…

well as Medea by Euripides. A lot of the characters from both books are real people from Greek Mythology. In The Iliad, Homer describes the characters in great details, with stories that entwined with their lives. Achilles, a mighty warrior in the Achaean Army, who has superhuman strength and a close relationship with the Gods, Hector, a son of a king, who is the mightiest warrior in the Trojan Army, meets his match with Achilles. These two people are very much alike but, still so different…

The Odyssey is a well known historical epic poem from the one and only famous Homer. The folk story has been around since the 8th century BC and is still widely known up to this present day. Throughout all these years, this story is considered very important to society since I personally think it teaches us more about how things were like in the past instead of reading about things in textbooks and how we can take some qualities shown in this story and apply it in our lives. The Odyssey has…

very Immature, and spoiled because at the first sign of trouble, he went to his mother. In line 450 in the Iliad, quote Achilles “So sit down right by Zeus, clasp his knee, remind him of all that, so he’ll want to help the Trojans somehow, corner Achaeans by the sea, by their ships’ prows, have them destroyed, so they all enjoy their king”. (Book I) The fact that he wanted Zeus to help the Trojans shows that he only cared about himself. He was being selfish because regardless if his feeling was…

In Ancient Greek culture, revenge was a common theme. This is also reflected in Homer’s epic, The Odyssey. According to Odysseus’ account in The Odyssey, most of his struggles came from a curse that the Cyclops Polyphemus placed on him as revenge for blinding him. Additionally, the trojan war essentially started as a revenge by the Greek city states for Paris of Troy taking Helen, Menelaus’s wife. What do these myths tell us about revenge? The myths show that revenge is a powerful force that…

Qualities that good leaders should have are courage, trustworthiness, and wisdom. Odysseus in the Odyssey and Samuel, Saul, and David in the Books of Samuel, all display these characteristics. Most people think that a leader is supposed to be perfect and have no flaws but that is not true. Odysseus, Samuel, Saul and David all had their own faults while leading but they still managed to lead victoriously. The first quality that a good leader should have is courage. Courage is the ability to do…

In the epic poem, The Iliad by Homer, Diomedes, a Greek soldier in the Argive forces, demonstrates acts of Greek excellence throughout the fight between the Greeks and the Trojans. As the Greeks fight, a great void of leadership and virtue appears because of the lack of these qualities from Agamemnon, the current leader of the Greeks. Because of Agamemnon's lack of leadership, it causes problems when making decisions and struggles with the Trojan army, making it possible for Diomedes to fill the…

Whenever children are being forced to read Virgil’s Aeneid in English class, they consider the story to be about an intense battle between two strong groups of people; although, what many of us do not understand is that the battle is not just physical, it is mental as well. If you look up the definition of “naive” on Urban Dictionary, you see words relating to it such as “stupid”, “gullible”, and “ignorant”. These words relate to the epic tale called the Aeneid; which, is written by Virgil.…

These were some of the mightiest heroes in all literature. Tales of these men have lived for thousands of years and will continue on for many more. However, the question remains who is the better hero. Besides fighting aspects, because there are many traits that determine if they are truly heroes. Achilles was the mightiest of all the Greek warriors and had a huge impact on the battlefield. Achilles was a killing machine, slaughtering Trojans with ease. Achilles was so feared on…

Jonathan, Saul's son and David's best friend, trusted David with all of his heart, loving him as much as he loved himself. Samuel put his trust in David when he anointed him king over all of Israel. Odysseus, however, was not trustworthy at all. The Achaeans sailed to the home of Aeolus, ruler of the winds, who gave Odysseus a bag containing all the winds. He never told the crew what was in the bag, so the curious shipmates opened it, traveling them back to Aeolus, who refused to help them. He…