Iliad

Text 2: Vergil’s Aeneid, book 2.279-297 Vergil’s textual source describes Aeneas’ encounter with Hector’s ghost during the siege on Troy who warns him that Troy has fallen and is held by the enemy. Vergil’s Aeneid focuses solely on Aeneas’ travels and then on the war of Troy. Vergil’s work has several poetic features used to create a very detailed scene. In this scene, Vergil uses first-person to show Aeneas’ emotional state during this encounter; allowing the reader to increase their sense of…

by Michael Clarke focuses on the use of literary devices, particularly similes, involving animals in Homeric writing. This article was written as typical culture presents animalistic comparisons to be insignificant, making the beast-similes in the Iliad superficial rather than been seen as essential to many aspects of the plot. According to Clarke, this concept led to the common belief that Homer’s use of beast-similes is to relieve the repetitiveness and dreariness from battle scenes. Modern…

temper. Alexander also had that type of personality. Alexander, in a wrath, once tied the body of an African who was fighting for the Persians, to his chariot and drove the body around the castle that the African was protecting. People that read the Iliad can compare it to when Achilles tied Hector’s body to his chariot and drove it around the city of Troy. Both Achilles and Alexander were known to take out their anger in…

In Homer's The Iliad, it focuses on how the mightiest warrior of the Achaean Army who’s filled with rage and bloodlust, undergoes a transformation. At the end of The Iliad, Achilles has slain Hector and humiliated the Trojan prince by dragging his body around on the ground from the back of his chariot. Mourning and begging, King Priam meets and pleads with Achilles to have his dead son Hector back for a proper burial. Achilles savageness and cruelty does not cease until King Priam reminds him of…

treasury and eventually just moved it, from home on Delos, to the Acropolis of Athens. As Athens control spread across Greece so did its love in the arts. The Arts exploded in popularity and many of these works are still great today. Works like The Iliad and Oedipus Tyrannos dealt with the idea of the inescapabilty of Fate and in trying to avoid these fates we instead seal it. These works give us insight…

In Homer’s Illiad, a scene takes place in which the hero Hector is being chased around Troy by the warrior Achilles. Just prior to this event, a battle between the Greeks and Trojans resulted in the death of Patroclus, fueling Achilles anger and forcing him to re-enter the fight to avenge him by killing Hector. Once Hector sees anger Achilles, he runs away in fear. On Olympus, Zeus and the other gods decide the fate of the men and they alter the course of the fight. This results in Hector’s…

the early times of the Greek civilization, there were no written language, and no written history. However, this is the time where two of the most influential Greek stories were created. This was the birthplace of the greats, The Odyssey, and The Iliad, and the template of all Greek writings to come. The man said to write the epics stated above was ironically blind. Homer, the greatest epic poet, was also the first. He is arguably the most influential man in the history of western literature.…

Homer’s Representation of Individuality in Greek Oral Traditions Homer is conservatively deemed as the author and creator of Greek writing as well as the entire Western literary tradition. With his notable works, The Odyssey and The Iliad, Homer largely defined the direction of Greek mythology based on his recollection and transformation of ancient oral traditions into written narratives. However, the difference between Homer and most authors of oral traditions is based specifically on his…

While reading the works of Homer, paying close attention the Books I, VI, XVI, XVIII, XXII, and XXIV of The Iliad and as well as Medea by Euripides. A lot of the characters from both books are real people from Greek Mythology. In The Iliad, Homer describes the characters in great details, with stories that entwined with their lives. Achilles, a mighty warrior in the Achaean Army, who has superhuman strength and a close relationship with the Gods, Hector, a son of a king, who is the mightiest…

Achilles are demonstrations of how destructive war is on a personal level, and neither is an adequate hero of The Iliad. Although both figures have their moments acting as protagonist and antagonist of this epic poem, neither Hector nor Achilles finish their story with a satisfactory conclusion, leaving the audience questioning the legitimacy of their character. From the beginning of The Iliad, Achilles is seen only as a man with a grudge who refuses to help his fellow men, even when their lives…