Iliad

events in the Trojan War described in The Iliad. In other words, Odysseus confronts similar problems, when he was in the Trojan War, traveling back to Ithaca. As a result, Homer displays Odysseus’ development as a person throughout both stories, applying his knowledge acquired on the battlefield to the daily adversities he encounters on his return home. Furthermore, Odysseus as a character is not emphasized until The Odyssey; that is to say that Homer in The Iliad subtly describes an…

powerful that even the greatest and most powerful societies of today and in the past are swayed by passion and duty’s influence. Those civilizations of the past wrote national epics tackling these forces, two of those books being the Aeneid and the Iliad. The Aeneid discusses four particular civilizations, each of which interact with the forces of passion in different and similar ways. The civilizations that the Aeneid and Odyssey discuss are Rome, Greece, Troy, and Carthage. All four of these…

their works spans a large swath of time across the history of the Greek civilization. Through their works one can pick up on shifts in attitudes as time passed for the Greeks, especially the attitude of the Greeks towards their religion. Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey feature so many instances of man interacting with the gods while the work in which Aristophanes pits man against the divine is his play The Birds. The contrast in the characters’ treatment of the gods between the three works…

Roughly three thousand years ago on the Eastern Aegean Coast a blind poet by the name of Homer created the Iliad. At its core is a lengthy account of the rage of Achilles that reflects Homer’s ancient audiences’ values. Troy is a modern day adaptation of Homer’s work written by David Benioff. Like the great entertainer before him, Benioff was faced with crafting a story to suit the qualities of his audience. To discuss the similarities and differences throughout the two works, one must consider…

completely opposite of each other. Apollo’s personality is represented by reason, order, and harmony. Dionysus’ personality is represented by disorder and irrationality. The Iliad and Agamemnon are two works of literature that includes numerous examples of the personalities of Apollo and Dionysus. In Book One of the Iliad, a Greek epic poem by Homer, there are many…

In the novel of the Iliad by Homer, the principal protagonist in the novel Achilles has many multiple and conflicting motivations in which make him a complex character. The author Homer was a man of complexity himself, he was the creator of the novel named Odyssey as well as the Iliad, and was considered to be one of the great epic poets of his time. A complex character, as well known as a dynamic character, is highly developed and complex, meaning they have a variety of traits and different…

Odyssey, the peaceful hospitality found in earlier dining areas throughout epic is abandoned for a scene more akin to that of a homeric battlefield. There are several elements in this chapter which mirror elements of battle scenes from the epic poem the Iliad. These include the graphic descriptions of death and catalogue style descriptions of death, supplication for lives, and the mutilation and gloating over the corpses. One of the characteristics of Homeric battle scenes are the detailed…

selfless and geat warrior compared to Hector of the Trojans who fought to be a loyal defender of his city. This will show how Aeneas is shown to be similar but better then Hector in the way that Virgil made him a mirror image of Hector from the Iliad. Aeneas is a democratic and selfless leader to his people. He demonstrates this when he finally lands in Italy. He is very disciplined in his self-control as a leader. He is not downhearted, but even though he knows times are hard, he is able…

Though there are many works from ancient Greece that survived, there are two authors that are the most well-known or frequently taught. Homer’s two epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, are perhaps the most well-known, because of the heroes epic battles of strength and wit against those deemed as enemies. Hesiod’s Works and Days, however, may be the most pertinent to finding out how everyday citizens of ancient Greece went about their everyday lives. These epics detail the lives of both…

The Iliad of Homer offers a remarkable amount of valued verses, stories, and books within its entirety, with the encounter between Helen and Aphrodite in lines 3.383-446 being a prime example of one of those. Although a lot can be made from what happens in this short dialogue between Helen and Aphrodite, the two main points of emphasis that were most impactful for me, are the actions of the mortal Helen in her interaction with the highly praised goddess Aphrodite. As well as the second point…