Achilles tendon

Bernard Evslin’s Heroes, Gods, and Monsters of the Greek Myths tells many stories about heroes and their faults. In a typical Greek story, heroes risk their lives to go on quests. On these quests, they often make morally questionable decisions, ruining the lives of others. The heroes return home after completing the task they set out to confront. Once home, they are lauded for the end results of their quests. The sins of goodness are usually ignored, if not celebrated. Heroes are allowed to get…

1. Cabin chat (374) If you could fill up a swimming pool with anything what would it be? Would you rather be a princess or a superhero? What was your favorite part of the week? Those were the questions I asked when leading my first cabin chat. Cabin chat includes asking silly questions or a time to talk about experiences of life with a chronic illness. Cabin chat was always one of my favorite parts of camp because we could speak without fear of judgment or not understanding, even at the age of 7…

Sparta had flaws in culture no doubt, but they also had some very powerful strengths. One being the loyalty to the state of Sparta. Once a Spartan always a Spartan, they weaned out the weak and built up the strong. This helped in more ways than one and made everyone of the state loyal to the state officials and people above them. With loyalty comes responsibility and respect, something that was earned and not given in Sparta. Being split into three major groups Sparta struggled to have respect…

An epic hero is not just some everyday, ordinary hero. They are the people that normal heroes look up to. These heroes have qualities that some people could only dream of having. Epic heroes are the heroes in epic poems, but what makes them so epic? The epic hero generally embodies the values of the culture in which the poem comes from. Many of these heroes are superhuman or have superhuman abilities, meaning that they are stronger, faster, smarter, or more courageous than normal human beings.…

of Troy, embark on an embassy with the intent to change Achilles’ mind, all while the Trojan War is taking place. Agamemnon’s goal was to convince the demi-god, Achilles, to continue fighting alongside the Greeks; Priam was only looking to recover the corpse of his son and Troy’s best warrior, Hector. Achilles, prideful as he is, had reasons to reject both kings, but instead conceded with Priam, his enemy’s father. The amount of pride Achilles has and the manner in which Priam and Agamemnon…

While two epic similes referencing the battle in book sixteen of The Iliad translated by Richmond Lattimore present very different ideas of battle, they work together to create a more complex and nuanced picture of the war between the Achaians and the Trojans. The first simile from lines 765-776 talks about the battle as “east wind and south wind [fighting] it out with each other” (16.765; 372). The second simile, which follows shortly after on lines 823-829, refers to Hektor “as a lion [that]…

of glory in the battlefield. The Iliad is about the Trojan war. This war is thought to have taken place around 1200 B.C. and the poem begins nine years after the start of the war. Some of the most remembered sections of the story have to do with Achilles, a demigod. The story is wrapped up in books 22 through 24.…

A hero is often described as a brave person who does everything in his power to save the lives of those around him. A tragic hero, then, can be defined as someone who is killed because of a fatal flaw, according to Greek philosopher Aristotle. In The Crucible by Arthur Miller, John Proctor is a tragic hero because he fits Aristotle’s definition of a tragic hero having goodness, superiority, a tragic flaw, and a realization that his decisions alone brought his death. To be considered an…

The remarkable and incredibly famous Odyssey, an epic poem written by Homer and translated by Robert Fitzgerald contains a wide variety of characters and portrayals of these characters. Throughout the story, the reader is constantly meeting various figures who are represented in contrasting ways. Although the book is dominated by male characters and was written in a time when men were considered the superior gender, the poem does possess a group of female characters varying vastly in portrayals…

Vahan’s Top Three Influences Vahan Kenderian, the protagonist of the story had a trifling journey from Bitlis to Constantinople running away from the gendarmes to fight for his own freedom. As the story progresses Vahan’s Character also develops and Vahan changes from an arrogant naive child to someone of substantial character. Vahan encounters many people along his journey who influence him and are the reason why he changed in the end. Therefore, Vahan’s Father, Sarkis Kenderian, Ara Sarkisian…