Achilles

My hero is my uncle because he served in the war i don’t know which one but it was when i was a baby still in my mama stomach 3 months i think but anyways i was young but he is an was a hero and he made me want to sever but then i thought nope nah i ain't tryna die so eventually i see him and ask him how was it he said “it was crazy i see bodies here bullets ever where be careful because if you wasn't you would get shot”warrior who lives and dies in the pursuit of honor" and asserts his or her…

to defeat the Trojans because he actually wanted to win the battle. Odysseus had a lot of ideas and became part of the action that took place during the Trojan War. As a soldier, Odysseus had at first convinced Achilles to join the Greeks to fight the Trojan War, as he was told that Achilles was an essential part of the team to be able to defeat Troy. The Greeks were later told by Kalchos that the Greeks would gain victory if three things were done (Iliad Book 2). Essentially, Odysseus did all…

his body and buried him and “also inscribed the stone of his grave with the following epitaph: Here lies Phaethon, Charioteer of his father’s horses. They bolted and brought him low; but high were his spirit and daring.” (book 2 line 325) The Great Achilles as well will forever be remembered from The Trojan war, though he died, the story of the mighty hero is…

Achilles was an infamous Greek warrior during the Trojan War, and the central character of Homer’s Iliad. Achilles, like McMurphy, lead their lives by the human condition of mortality, with all ordeals defining heroic life(3). Both men possessed hubris, monolithic personalities. Achilles refused to allow his values to be compromised - he was individualistic and persistent, like McMurphy, who…

The first example she used was when Zeus lets Achilles defeat Agamemnon. The way Achilles and Agamemnon worshiped Zeus shows that men are terrified by the gods, and the way Zeus plays with their lives shows that the gods do not care about men. Also, men and important goddess were identified by their father’s name. Finally…

It's said that the content of the "Iliad" was accounted for fifty days in the last year of The Trojan War. It enlightens people on all of the events that took place between King Agamemnon and warriors of Achilles. Although he only talked about the final weeks during the last year of the war, he conveyed a perfect picture to the Greek legends about the siege. Including the cause of the war, early events, and the gathering of the warriors for the siege. The…

This paper will argue that a person’s achievements and failings are not up to them as the hero (person) has no free will in his thoughts or actions. This is seen as true even in the embodiments of the greek ideal-self. The heroic ideal person is not a product of his choices but of the gods. In this paper greek gods will be used as symbols to represent the exterior forces of nature. Such exterior forces include but are not limited to family, status, society, norms, laws, and upbringing. This is…

During the times of the Classical Greeks, culture began to abandon the principle of fate, and, at the same time, moved toward a firm belief in free will. In The Iliad, which Homer wrote around 750 BCE ("Reading the Iliad." Reading the Iliad. Web.), the author suggested that the people of the time had no control over their actions; rather, the gods controlled everything. In contrast, in Oedipus Rex, which Sophocles wrote in 429 B.C. ("Background for Antigone." Background for Antigone. Web.),…

Honor is defined as regards with the greatest respect and is central to the Greek character; this could have even been valued more than life itself and was the essence of the city-state from which they come from (“Honor”). The concept of honor is critical to understanding the motivation of Athenian and Spartan men. They lived their lives according to this honor that was gained through warrior acts in battle. Homer believed in having a glorious reputation of honor and it was of the highest…

Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, Homer’s The Iliad, Karl Marlantes’s What it is Like to Go to War provide a more personal, intimate perspective in the lives and mentality of soldiers - in these three works, the soldiers are not necessarily portrayed as the stereotypical invincible and fearless warriors, but more as humans as the authors expose their mistakes, weaknesses, and emotions. However, one of the key factors that helps enhance the readers’ emotional connection to the soldiers in…