Agamemnon

spark a war that lasts so incredibly long? These men are barbaric, and the Greeks are fighting so long it almost seems like they do not care as much to see Helen returned, but to see Troy fall to rubble. For example, in Book Nine of The Iliad, Agamemnon offers Achilles many gifts, from gold bars, to oxen, cauldrons, and even women (Book 9, Lines 146-159). This offering demonstrates clearly the disregard for women and portrayal of them as simple objects to be “given” as gifts. It is difficult to…

grand amount of intimacy to his soldiers because he is willing to leave his wife and kid to attempt to prosper. Homer is attempting to reveal the selfishness that Hektor contains. In contrast, Achilleus does not sacrifice himself for others. When Agamemnon begs him to return to war after the Achaean 's were struggling, Achilleus refuses. Achilleus’ hot-hotheadedness and pride overtakes him and causes him to selfishly decline. Another example of this difference can be seen when instead of…

what strives them to keep fighting until the end, the Iliad has influences in our modern period and it shows it in this war, this was as same as the Trojans and Greeks has leaders of these countries(Mahmoud Abbas and Reuven Rivlin or for the Iliad Agamemnon and Priam) and it could have influenced other wars in our modern period on how to prepare themselves, knowing that there has to be a loser and a winner and they both need to get prepared and use their best armor, weapons and soldiers, and…

example Haynes, connects examples of Superman being seen as a divine like god can be resembled to ancient god Zeus, Wonder women being a “demigod” in the comics, can also be connected to ancient Greek mythology. Haynes also connects, Tony Stark to Agamemnon from the Iliad. They might not have superpowers, but they have endless amounts of wealth that guarantee’s them power. Today heroes can be seen beyond the fictional world of Marvel and Dc. Many families and friends, have someone serving…

Characters of Mythology A. Paris / insolent B. “The ties between guest and host were strong. Each was bound to help and never harm the other… shamed the hand that gave him food, stealing away a woman.” (Hamilton 257) C. Although he was entitled to Helen by Aphrodite, she had already been wedded to another man. The god of beauty had no other choice but to grant Paris his wish. The way that he had taken the wife of Menelaus, however, was cowardly and dishonored the sacred ties between host and…

put in Achilles place, she would have acted very similar to Achilles. Bearing in mind the honor and moral factor, she puts them first. Therefore, she would take revenge if her brother was killed by Hector. However, if her honor was taken away from Agamemnon I think that she would be puzzled. Being an honorary figure, that would make her to boycott the war. However, because of her moral obligation, she wouldn’t let her comrades die as it is the moral thing to do. It seems that for Antigone moral…

It may seem difficult to draw similarities to ancient Greek champions to the war heroes of modern day, but they have more in common than one may think. For example, recent medal of honor winner, Captain Florent A. Groberg, prevented the deaths of all of his company except for four misfortunate souls. When a suicide bomber was walking toward his company, Groberg acted fast by running head first into the bomber to push him away from his fellow soldiers. He suffered major injuries and was in…

There is a difference between religion and mythology. Religion is a set of practices based on the belief of non-human beings monitoring actions and myths are stories that matter within a specific community or communities. There are two kinds of religion, evolutionary and revealed. The Greeks had an evolutionary religion where the totality of things were feared by a social group and had no specific origin. Myth can be divided into three categories, the first being divine, which explains the…

that all help contribute into shaping the poem into something much more elegant than just a recollection of a war. The two works also collide in more than one way, as not only would Ferry’s described account of the creation of the universe be what Agamemnon and Greeks would have believed in, but it also can be taken as a sense of literary direction when it comes to the story of the Iliad…

they would be drowning in a river of blood. If someone was gluttonous, they would be tortured with uncomfortable sensory elements. Three women in history that are well known within the lore of Greek mythology; Clytemnestra from Aeschylus’s play Agamemnon, Myrrha from Ovid’s Book of Metamorphosis,…