Agamemnon

His hatred for Agamemnon caused him to call upon his mother and Zeus to get revenge on him. His revengeful soul caused pain and suffering to his beloved Greeks. This resulted in a war that divided the mortals and the immortals which caused detrimental effects to both groups…

The Iliad translated by Robert Fagles, and Salammbo written by Flaubert, uses the main protagonists to depict messages about war, love, and women. Achilles is the main character in The Iliad and Salammbo is the main charter in Salammbo. Both of these characters were comparative in their qualities and interesting in their own particular manners. Both books examine the impacts of war and actions that elevate the characters to go to war. Both works show the extreme level of what people would do for…

If you are ungrateful you pay the consequences. Notes? Clytemnestra’s Revenge on Agamemnon Who? Agamemnon and Clytemnestra What? Agamemnon was away and his wife, Clytemnestra had an affair with Aegisthus. Aegisthus wanted to kill Agamemnon and his son Orester. They got to kill Agamemnon the son Orester killed his mother and Aegisthus he was then followed by Furies and on his way to Greece, he went over there to pay for his crimes and…

T.S. Eliot is known to be the most influential writer of the twentieth century due to his wide-ranging contributions to poetry, criticism, prose, and drama (Explanation of: “The Waste Land”). In this case, his work becomes stronger as his allusions contribute to help convey the meaning of each poem. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock seems to start out as a love poem when he tells someone, “Let us go then, you and I” (Sound and Sense, 284). Farther on though, it starts to stray to Prufrock…

These words were spoken by Kreon in Sophocles’ play, Oedipus the King. The recipient of these words was none other than Oedipus himself, the king of Thebes and Kreon’s brother-in-law. At this point in the plot, Kreon had just returned from the Oracle of Delphi, where he sought answers concerning Apollo’s plague, which was destroying Thebes. For the plague to end, Apollo orders the city to be cleansed. This requires either the exile or execution of the murderer of Laios, Thebes’ former king.…

The Greek army was led by Agamemnon of Mycenae and had a handful of Olympic gods, goddesses and demi-gods on their side as well. The gods that aided the Greeks during this war include Athena, Poseidon, Hera, Hephaistos, Hermes and Thetis. Demi-gods are people that are half-god and…

After Briseis, his spoil of war, is stolen from him by Agamemnon, Achilles vows to stand aside and allow Hector to kill the Greeks because they do not honor him (Homer Iliad 1.254-259). That selfishness clouds his judgment and leads him to make rash decisions. Achilles’ pride prevents him from being productive…

must be persuaded as to scuffle for the Trojans. While eradication is scarcely seen in Salammbo, demise depicts as an abhorrent and to a great degree agonizing experience in The Iliad. For example, a case of a passing scene amongst Agamemnon and Odius, “First Agamemnon lord of men spilled the giant Odius, chief of Halizonians off his car-the first to fall, as he veered away the spearhead punched his back between the shoulders, gouging his flesh and jutting out his ribs-he fell with a crash, hos…

mythology. The conflict was the fact that the Greek warriors sailed the Aegean (which today is called Turkey) surrounded the castle of Troy for about ten years. In the beginning of the story Achilles who was the Greek hero gets into an argument with Agamemnon who is the chief king. This argument is all over a…

The Greek, Trojan, and Indian families all have different views of seeing family and most of the time put other things over family. Take for example how the Greeks and Trojans in The Iliad both valued glory over family, unlike the Indians who did not. The Indian families in The Ramayana are traditional and follow a caste system in which everyone has a dharma or duty. They value this system and honor their roles, like women who are to submit to their husbands. In The Iliad, the Trojans and…