Iliad

Polyneices, going against the king’s laws. Antigone proves herself to be a Homeric hero through her actions. In comparison with characters from the mind of Homer, who made many heroes in his works, Antigone is most like Achilleus and Hektor, from The Iliad. Achilleus in that she follows through in what she believes is right and isn 't afraid to speak up to authority, and Hektor in the way she is willing to die for her values and her family. One major difference she has with is the heroes is…

The Odyssey illustrates the journey of Odysseus on his homecoming after the Trojan War. Through Homer's Iliad and Odyssey has mentioned the possible existence and access of the Afterlife through rituals as expressed by Achilles in the Iliad after he received a premonition of his cousin Patroclus after he had not completed his funeral right and could not move forward to the realm of the dead. Homer’s Odyssey Book XI raises several important themes about the presentation of the Afterlife in Greek…

anthropologist in Egypt, he discovered a different story about the famous Helen in the Iliad. After Alexander's servants confess his misdeeds of stealing Helen from Menelaus to Thonis, Thonis states that "this woman [Helen] and the property I will not let you take with you, but I will keep them myself for your Greek host till the day he comes here and wants to take them away" Herodotus (2.115). Unlike in the Iliad, Helen remained in Egypt until Menelaus came to retrieve her after Troy fell…

story. Even though Heinrich Schliemann was the first earnest excavator on site, the city of Troy was a common place of visitation for the ancient Greeks who wished to see with their own eyes the setting of the story they all knew so well. Homer’s Iliad gives us a wonderful idea of the importance the ancient Greeks placed in the story to have kept the story as popular as it was throughout the years. Indeed, for it to have been popular enough to finally be written down after being an orally…

Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, Homer’s The Iliad, Karl Marlantes’s What it is Like to Go to War provide a more personal, intimate perspective in the lives and mentality of soldiers - in these three works, the soldiers are not necessarily portrayed as the stereotypical invincible and fearless warriors, but more as humans as the authors expose their mistakes, weaknesses, and emotions. However, one of the key factors that helps enhance the readers’ emotional connection to the soldiers in…

In the epic written by the school of Homer called the Iliad, Achilles was torn between choosing a long, happy life with no one to remember him and his memory being told through the ages, a mortal’s way of immortality. The knowledge of the fact that he was mortal was something that he could not simply get away from and it consciously and subconsciously plagued him throughout the tale. While this created an emotional rift between him and his fellow soldiers fighting against the Trojans, it also…

The Odyssey By: Homer I can compare the Odyssey to the Illiad because they are both epics about the Mycenean or the Bronze age. The Iliad tells the final chapter in the story of two major Bronze Age “Greek” alliances battling each other. The Illiad is also a turning-road kind of epic and like the Odyssey, is very long. It ended when the Greeks defeated the Trojans while the Odyssey concentrated on how Odysseus can go back to his family, while his family struggles after the war. Both are seminal…

Achilles: Defining Homer’s Idea of Heroism Throughout the Iliad, characters such as Odysseus, Achilles, Agamemnon and Hector received a certain phrase after they’re announced: like a god (Book 7, Line 136). Even though these warriors were truly mortal – or demigod - they exhibited characteristics that declared them rightful owner of the title “hero.” However, these heroes were described as strong and ruthless warriors who killed and mutilated whatever they could in order to get what they…

Synthesis paper In my paper I wish to synthesize the works that we have covered in class by showing how they work together to show us the special elements found in every good story. All of the works that we have covered this year work together in many different ways. They also all share many elements of story such as conflict, themes, characters and development, setting, and plot. These elements differ in many ways such as themes being a very broad part of story and plot is a vast element. For…

The novel begins in the tenth year of the Trojan War and it appears to be quizzical. However, this is Homer`s unique writing style, and he begin the novel ten years into the war because when the book was written most of the readers knew the back-story. The first word “Rage” contributes to the theme and sets the conflict for the whole novel. In the first lines, the reader is told that Achilles rage condemns warriors to death and their bodies are left for scavengers such as dogs and birds to eat…