Homer Simpson

Achilles the morning after his darkest hours, mourning Patroclus's death. Thetis presented Achilles with brand new armor, so mighty, that “a tremor ran through all the Myrmidon ranks--none dared to looks straight at the glare, each fighter share away” (Homer.19.17-18).” The only one who did not look away was Achilles, because he knew that this was the stability he needed. The armor was the final push he needed to end his sorrow and streak of chaos and sadness. As previously aforementioned, it…

Society is always changing, but there are underlying universal truths that. In Aristophanes's Birds, Athenians Pithetaerus and Euelipides seek asylum from the monstrous nature of the corrupt and greedy politicians that plague the human world by joining their perceived utopia with the birds, but find that the hunger for power is universal throughout civilization. Where Aristophanes tells about the troubling nature of humans through the characterization of birds, Plato addresses his own personal…

I choose these two stories because there are many similarities and differences in both stories. I want to describe, how the lives of the two young men were before and after the war. The journey and the struggles, they both overcame to become the men they are today. In the Hemingway story The Revolutionist and Soldier’s Home have many similarities and differences between Harold Krebs and the Hungarian man and the tone of the stories. First, the similarities, Krebs in the Soldier’s Home went to…

Homer’s poem, The Odyssey, is a story of, Odysseus, the hero behind the Trojan Horse. After ten years fighting and then winning the Trojan War, Odysseus sets for home. Unfortunately, he unexpectedly faces much adversity in his travels, including becoming a goddess’ sex slave and losing all of his men to the sun god. It takes Odysseus another ten years to finally get home, where he must fight to take back his wife and thrown. On August 21, 2017, I will be 34 years old and I have lived an epic…

For the Greek people, most of their lives centered around honor. In the text from both Homer and Hesiod, the importance of honor is subtle and effectively shown. To the Greek people, the idea of having honor in social, economic, and political mean that they could pass on to future generations meant everything. Social honor among men, women, and with the gods could all be different things in terms of what actions needed to be taken to be considered honorees, however, being honorable was still…

The poem can be divided into two parts: A heroic story about a legendary king, and a narrative about a spiritual journey by a man who has just recognized his own mortality. A. Gilgamesh is heroic in that he is partly divine. Moreover, his adventures are captured in an epic, which is a narrative poem written about a hero or heroines that display unparalleled bravery and courage. B. The poem begins with Gilgamesh as a ruler who oppresses his people, who pray to the gods for relief. 1. The gods…

Myth is primarily a certain type of story in which some of the chief characters are gods or other beings larger in power than humanity. Very seldom its is located in history: its action takes place in a word above or prior to ordinary time. Hence, like the folk tale, it is an abstract story pattern. “The characters can do what they like, which means what the storyteller likes: there is no need to be plausible or logical in motivation. The things that happen in myth are things that happen only…

The Odyssey, by Homer, gives an abundance of lessons to learn from the main character, Odysseus. On his way home to Ithaca, his patient wife Penelope, and newborn son Telemachus, Odysseus overcomes many difficulties; Polyphemus, the Sirens, Scylla and Charybdis, . Also, most of the skills that Odysseus obtained are still relevant in today’s world. Odysseus and I have both needed to decide whether peer pressure is a positive or negative situation, before making a decision that could possibly…

Beowulf Beowulf is an epic poem that revolves around several battles between Beowulf, Grendel, Grendel’s mother and a dragon. Beowulf is an epic hero that is subjected to fate and cannot escape his mortality. He is the leader of the Geats and is characterized as a mighty, powerful, and bold warrior. He also becomes fearful of death towards the end and is worried when encountering certain battles. With this in mind, he displays these characteristics several times throughout the poem by resolving…

In Divine Comedy and the Iliad, there are many examples of characters that exhibit heroic characteristics and actions. But which character is the most heroic? The characters Hector, Dante, and Achilles all display heroic characteristics, but the most heroic is Hector. We will examine Hector, Dante, and Achilles to conclude that Hector is the most heroic character. Hector is the most heroic character showing us characteristics of courage, love, and strength. Hector stands up for the Trojan…