Deities in the Iliad

Homer’s captivating epic, The Iliad, invites readers to compare the protagonist, Achilles, and his foil, Hector, during the span of only a couple bloody weeks of the lengthy Trojan War. Thousands of men sacrifice their lives at the cost of one Trojan’s selfish act of stealing Helen, the most beautiful woman in the world, from the Greeks. Homer presents the recurring motif that the will of Zeus prevails regardless of man’s attempts to escape. The weight of the Greek hero and the Trojan leader’s…

Achilles is most powerful warrior in The Iliad, proud and stubborn, he takes offense easily and reacts with an intense anger when he feels that his honor has been insulted. Achilles’ gets angry with Agamemnon for taking his war prize, the maiden Briseis. Arjuna is the central figure of the Gita. He is Krishna 's follower, and asks for the deity for help when he has to fight his own family in order to take command of a kingdom that is rightfully…

Nordics. Both sets of mythologies share a lot of similarities in the types of gods they contain. King of the gods, queen of the gods, and god of war all appear in the two culture’s beliefs. While there are distinct differences that characterize the deities in both sets of myths, the similarities are profound. In approximately 1500 B.C.E., the development of Greek…

Greek deities were renamed and given warrior-like characteristics and philosophy transitioned into Roman thought. Stoicism taught the sovereignty of Reason and Divine Providence that guarded the virtuous; this philosophy prevailed in the intellectual Roman society…

1. Describe the dual inheritance within Christianity of Greek and Jewish thought. How were these traditions similar? How were they distinct? How did each contribute to the formation of Christian life and belief? Cite MacCulloch in your answer. Investigating the origins of the Bible aids in drawing connections between the demographics that wrote and condoned it, their culture, and how that has influenced Christianity. Recognizing that the books that comprise the Bible were originally written in…

In present day we often hold ancient pieces of literature such as; The Epic of Gilgamesh, Shakespearean plays, and The Iliad upon pedestals. Sadly, overtime these stories have shown their true colors, they are a reflection of the sexist views their patriarchy societies held. One such story is the Odyssey, an Epic poem composed in ancient Greece. Three specific characters do an exemplary job of exposing the ant-feminist views of the civilization. Through the representation of the main female…

A common assumption is that the Iliad is merely a tale that celebrates the conquests of great warriors who create legacies for themselves and their families. In reality, beneath the idea of a legacy is a negative side. The epic poem is written so that the famous are the ones who experience the greatest misery because they are trapped by public opinion. In the Iliad, Homer subverts the ancient Greek trope that legacies are crucial to a fulfilling life. One of the most complex characters in the…

The presence of Nymphs in Greek literature and religion is everywhere; from whom people pray to, to the way they impact the stories of authors, and all the way to impacting how people speak like Socrates and Homer. Describing what a nymph is however, is a very difficult process. In Greek literature and religion, the main way of identifying a nymph is the formula “Daughter of Asopos” (Larson 4). Other common ways of identifying these divine beings are if they are the daughter of Zeus or other…

The nation had jagged coastlines breaking the land into numerous areas. No king ever united ancient Greece, and the Greeks became seafarers, who enjoy traveling by sea rather than land travel. The principal deities in Greek mythologies lived in Mount Olympus, which was the highest point in the all of Greece, and Zeus reigned over all the other gods. The city-state comprised of independent states that included a city and the territories that surrounded it. The…

Zeus, and his two brothers, Hades and Poseidon. However, there were many more deities that were praised. The goddess of Love. Aphrodite has two stories about how she came about, whether or not they are true nobody knows. The first one is from Hesiod 's Theogony, which says that when Cronos cut off his father 's’, Uranus’, genitals and threw them into the sea that she rose from the sea foam. The second one from Homer’s Iliad says, that she was the daughter of Zeus and Dione. Aphrodite is married…