Achilles

First, his interactions with the dead and why he went there in the first place helped me understand why he needed to go to the island and helped provide visual of the interactions between Odysseus, his mother, Agamemnon, and Achilles. Secondly, his 7 year stay with Kalypso helped me understand that he actually stayed on his own accord, which makes his heroic persona a bit more flawed than it seemed to be. I thought the added context from the voiceover of the film helped me grasp…

Hector’s time has come and is about to be killed by the mightiest of all warriors fighting in the Trojan War. As Achilles is torturing and killing Hector, Hector says, “Let me not die without / a struggle, without fame, but having done something great, / something for those in later times to remember.” (22. 292-294). Hector has done a lot for the Trojans in the war…

the second, to learn to understand and forgive others. Homer utilized the conversation between Nestor and Agamemnon to tell a truth of being humble and listening to others to all OSU students. In book 9, Agamemnon took away the girl Briseis from Achilles, aroused his anger and gave him insult regardless of Nestor’s strong opposition. Agamemnon’s army has suffered for his reckless and wrong decision and he wanted to compensate for his mistake (9, 100-130). It’s important for OSU students to…

them die than be disgraced. He feels like pride is more important than the lives of his sons. I’m not sure if that is a good or bad thing. However, he did go and beg Achilles for his sons body. He risked his life to go and ask Achilles for a favor, for respect. Stating that” Even enemies can so each other respect.” And then Achilles told him he was a better king than the one that was running the Greek army. Which I agree with Priam was a good king. Not perfect and had many faults, but he tried…

help him tell the tale correctly. He then blames a multitude of Achaean deaths on Achilles. “Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans. Many a brave soul did it send hurrying down to Hades, and many a hero did it yield a prey to dogs and vultures, for so were the counsels of Jove fulfilled from the day on which the son of Atreus, king of men, and great Achilles, first fell out with one another”(Book 1 Lines 1-?). ““The Iliad” is an epic…

Text 2: Vergil’s Aeneid, book 2.279-297 Vergil’s textual source describes Aeneas’ encounter with Hector’s ghost during the siege on Troy who warns him that Troy has fallen and is held by the enemy. Vergil’s Aeneid focuses solely on Aeneas’ travels and then on the war of Troy. Vergil’s work has several poetic features used to create a very detailed scene. In this scene, Vergil uses first-person to show Aeneas’ emotional state during this encounter; allowing the reader to increase their sense of…

When examining the text of Sophocles’ Philoctetes, it demonstrates the conflict of individuals and society during the Greek period. The relationship between the individual and their society is a topic of constant interest not only to philosophers and religious thinkers, but for each of us. Every person has plans, hopes, expectations, and needs. Their society has its own, in the form of laws, traditions, and needs for the greater good. Not to mention, often times the needs and demands of the…

Age in either western Asia Minor or Greece. The ones that were used were most likely copied from around the sixth century B.C. Greek statues. In the Greek story of the Trojan War, Odysseus and Achilles dodged the war in very unusual ways. To get out of the war, Odysseus pretended to be insane while Achilles disguised himself as a woman. There is also no evidence that during this time period that Greece was ever under the command of one king, while the movie depicts Agamemnon, as king of…

arrows among the people” (Book I. Pg 4). Chryseis was at first claimed by Agamemnon while Briseis was claimed by Achilles. However, in order to appease Apollo, Agamemnon decides to send Chryseis back to her home. In return he demands Briseis instead. Achilles says “ ‘You are steeped in insolence and lust of gain. With what heart can any of the Achaeans do your bidding” (I.8). With Achilles refusal, Agamemnon forcibly removes Briseis which leads to great trouble for the Achaeans. This shows…

beginning of the epic, the King is seen as selfish and can even Pamela Witkowski Dr. Asma Sayed COMP 102 (AS05) 6 October 2014 Roles of Women in The Iliad and Gilgamesh Gilgamesh is the epic about a powerful King named Gilgamesh who searches for immortality after his best friend, Enkidu, is killed. At the beginning of the epic, the King is seen as selfish and can even be considered a cruel authoritarian leader; his people are not happy with him in power. The journey he forgoes is to look for…