Achilles tendon rupture

people in history have turned to the Iliad in times of war, no less today than they have in the ancient world. A soldier in World War I, Patrick Shaw-Stuart, who died in battle in 1917, composed a poem shortly before arriving in Gallipoli, entitled Achilles in the trenches. He croons, “Oh Hell of ships and cities / Hell of men like me / Fatal second Helen / Why must I follow thee?” By nicknaming the war “Fatal second Helen”, the poet insinuates that it is more-or-less a predetermined repeat of…

Homer’s epic poem, the Iliad, speaks about the great deeds of the Mycenaeans in the Trojan War. More specifically, it is about Achilles’ conflict with Agamemnon. The Greeks claimed to be heralded from Mycenaeans; this is definitely true. Mycenaeans were the earliest Greek-speaking peoples in the region, as opposed to the Minoans of Crete, and the civilizations from the Cyclades speaking their own languages. Homer was born into the Dark Age of Greece, a few hundred years after the bronze age…

In The Iliad written by Homer about Greek myth, Hector is a Trojan prince who keeps his commitment and never afraid of death in the war because he believes fate. He loves his family as much as himself. His wife wants him to stay with family, but nonetheless the reason why he still goes to the war is because he thinks it is ashamed if he does not join the war and hide behind Trojans by fear of death. In John Krakauer’s book Where Men Win Glory, real life famous football player Pat Tillman also…

The Odyssey is one of the most known Greek Mythology to the point where everyone has heard about it or read it. Its stories are deeply ingrained in our race, our culture, our history, that it’s essentially an enormous set of morals, or life lessons in a book. In one chapter in the book, Odysseus attended an assembly of major peoples at the palace of King Alcinous, and the singer at the assembly, Demodocus, sang the tragic tale of the “Trojan War”. Odysseus immediately broke into tears,…

A Hero’s Journey, by Joseph Campbell, is a guide that provides information/elements needed for creating a heroic character. One of the adventurous stories is The Odyssey, woven orally by a Greek poet named Homer. Homer unfolds, with the help of the Muse, Odysseus risking he and his men on a journey to get back home. Also, for Odysseus to save his wife from the suitors bribing her. Another action and an adventurous story is a movie, O Brother, Where Art Thou? which was produced by the Coen…

written down and translated, which allows us to learn things about the ancient Greek values. The Iliad centralizes around the demigod Achilles, the hero Hector, and the Greek gods during the Trojan War. It covers many different events, including internal disagreements within the Greeks, as well as the battles between Greeks and Trojans. The climax occurs when Achilles and Hector battle each other; eventually resulting in Hector’s foreshadowed death. In The Iliad, by the poet Homer, the most…

occurred under the oath of the gods. In The Iliad, Achilles' handling destruction of Hector is self-destructive through physical actions. Hector is clothed with Achilles' formal armor, the armor that was given to Patroclus from Achilles was removed. Through the perspective of the armor, this building made Patroclus represent Achilles into a mirroring picture of him. As a consideration to the armor, Hector slaughter becomes an even more unsettling…

The Trojan war was one of the largest wars in history. It pitted the Greeks versus the Trojans in a battle for the city of Troy and lasted ten long years. This war saw the rise and fall of many heroes including Hercules. However, the war was caused by one single emotion that worked as the motive and motivation for the deaths of thousands. The emotion of love can drive normally rational people to do completely irrational things. Similar to how the Greeks attacked Troy in the name of…

two families who are more alike then they 'd expect. Malouf has recreated the epic tale of the Trojan war during the last section of Homer’s Iliad, through his poetic and creative style of writing, the author successfully sets the mood of the tale. Achilles, one of the greatest warriors of the Greeks finds himself in a downward spiral as the death of Patroclus is beyond devastating and tries to find comfort in avenging his friend by killing Hector, but still consumed by grief, finds little ease…

“Sing, Goddess, Achilles’ rage, black and murderous, that cost the Greeks incalculable pain, pitched countless souls of heroes into Hades’ dark, And left their bodies to rot as feasts for dogs and birds, as Zeus’ will be done” (1:1-8). These are the first few lines of the book and we are already given dark imagery such as “black and murderous” and “incalculable pain” to explain the war to come. This remains a constant theme throughout the story which signals the act of war, and the death it…