Achilles

Rigoni Paper #1 The Value of the Gods to Achilles Throughout most of The Iliad, Achilles spends his time avoiding the battle against the Trojans rather than supporting his fellow Achaeans on the battlefield. Achilles’s personal values seem to greatly influence his reasons as to why he shouldn’t go out to fight. In Book 9, Achilles’s speech refers to many different values that could justify his reasons for holding back (225). Of these values, Achilles is most vocal about his thirst for both…

“The WAR That KILLED ACHILLES” was written by Caroline Alexander. It is the hidden truth of Homer’s Iliad and the Trojan War. The author, Caroline Alexander explained about some of the important incidents happened in the Trojan War. Although there are several characters in this book, the main characters are Achilles (a great Greek hero), Patroklos (Achilles’ best friend), Hektor (a great Trojan hero), Priam (Hektor’s Father and the King of Troy), and Agamemnon (the Commander of the united Greek…

heartbroken wife? Or a mistress? No, these were the words of Achilles, the protagonist of the Iliad and the hero of the Trojan War. Achilles is one of the oldest and well-known characters of all time. Scholars in antiquity and artists have fallen in love with his character, inspiring artwork and works of reimagined literature and lots of discourse. One topic of discourse that has plagued both scholars and readers alike is whether the “love” that Achilles references in the Iliad for Patroclus,…

shared on burial rites and the treatment of bodies. The poet not only focuses on the dead and dying, but also pays respect to the bodies of particularly impressive individuals, such as “godlike” Achilles, while the character lives. Homer does this out of respect for the human life and its impermanence. Achilles, being a descendent…

there is multiple occasions in which Achilles is attempted to be persuaded into fighting against the Trojans. Because of the hatred Achilles harbors for the king, Agamemnon, he refuses to accept the lavish gifts offered and fight for the good of the city. The two speakers Odysseus and Phoenix take two different approaches to persuade Achilles to stay and rejoin the fight. The first speaker, Odysseus, takes a more impersonal approach to the issue by formulating his speech with more logos rather…

escape nor deny. In book 9, Achilles states, “One and the same lot for the man who hangs back /and the man who battles hard. The same honor waits/ for the coward and the brave. They both go down to Death/” (IX. ll.385-387). All are subject to fate therefore, force is merely a subcategory of fate and Weil alleviated from that perspective. There is one character within the Iliad who most clearly demonstrates the subject of fate and the recognition of humanity. Achilles, a superhuman and the…

piece ever. It is a story of the Trojan War. Instead of focusing on the battle outside the walls of Troy, I found the internal, mental battle that the hero, Achilles was fighting to be much more interesting. Achilles is tired of fighting in combat. He has already won great material wealth and glory from other conquests around the world. Achilles says, For not worth the value of my life are all the possessions they fable were won for Ilion, that strong-founded citadel, in the old days…

the author is Homer. Theme: The central idea of the epic is Rage. In the beginning of the work the character, Achilles, is said to be the reason why many Greeks died during war. In the epic poem, it says that Achilles allowed his rage to control his thinking, which resulted in him removing himself from the war between the Greeks and the Trojans. Continuing throughout the work Achilles continued to allow his anger to control his actions and emotions, which in turn, effected many of his…

violence. Many different themes can be identified in Homer’s Iliad, when Achilles and Hector battle. One theme identified in Homer’s Iliad when Achilles and Hector battle,…

Achilles father is not seen directly in The Iliad, but he is mentioned a few times throughout the story; mostly in relation to Achilles fate of death. Achilles himself mentions his father at the very end of the Iliad, after Hector’s death, when he is talking to Priam. “And I will not tend him when he grows old, for I sit here in Troy very far from my homeland, bringing misery to you and your children.” (XXIV. 526-528). It would seem that Achilles has not given much thought…