Menelaus

This war involved the Achaeans and the Trojans. King Menelaus, an Achaean, had a wife named Helen, and she was known for her outstanding beauty. However, Helen was not treated as a human but as a piece of property, for King Menelaus literally won her as a prize. Many men envied King Menelaus for owning a woman as beautiful as her. Driven by his jealousy, Paris, a Trojan, decided he would kidnap Helen and bring her back to Troy. When King Menelaus found out about the kidnapping, he called on his…

Who started the Trojan War? This question has led to numerous debates among historians. There is no concrete answer to this question, because Greek plays blame different individuals. Aeschylus’ Agamemnon suggests that the curse on the house of Atreus should be blamed for the suffering brought on by the Trojan War, while Euripides’ The Women of Troy implies that Helen is to blame, whereas I will argue that it is the Gods’ fault. In the play Agamemnon there are two parties debating who to blame…

impossible than it already was, Helen was married to a man named Menelaus. Paris’ army snuck in and kidnapped Helen while Menelaus was away. Helen could have gone willingly, or forced by Paris and his army. When Menelaus arrived at home, and realized his beloved Helen was missing he set out to find her. Before I explain the rest, please, prepare yourself. Achilles allowed his friend, Patroclus, to borrow his armor and advance to fight. Menelaus and his army wish to attack, but they were fearful…

Humanity includes all of the beings in the world, where they are righteous without influence. One way humanity is shown as intrinsically ethical is throughout Homer's Odyssey. Homer depicts many qualities of being a naturally good person through different aspects of the novel. Odysseus's self-control is one of these many aspects showing how human is naturally good. Another very important quality of the characters in the Odyssey is their own hospitality. Whoever Odysseus or Telemachus runs into…

1. PLOT When bringing up the matter about Odysseus, Athena tells Zeus about his problem and how she wants to help him since he’s stranded on Calypso’s island. The reader may notice that Athena uses an emotional appeal when telling about Odysseus and how her “‘heart breaks for Odysseus’”(1.57). Athena emphasizes how much Odysseus wants to go home and states that he “‘longs to die’”(1.71). This creates sympathy towards the audience and Zeus which proceeds to planning Odysseus’ journey home. 2.…

in the Trojan War, King Odysseus of Ithaca is lost on his travels home. Suitors overrun his palace, trying to marry his wife. Athena convinces Telemachus to journey and find out whether his father is alive. He meets King Nestor in Pylos and King Menelaus in Sparta, who both have news about Odysseus. Telemachus's journey—both a physical and metaphorical journey—is essential for him to become the true son of Odysseus because he learns how similar he is to Odysseus, gains confidence, and…

Within Telemachus’s great journey in The Odyssey, Telemachus gains incredible knowledge and obtains a crew, which allows for Telemachus to attempt to find Odysseus. When leaving Ithaca, Telemachus obtains a crew, “When they came down to the sea and reached the boat they found their long-haired crew waiting on the beach… He led off and the crew followed. They brought down all the stores and stowed them in their well-built ship” (2.404-414). This caused Telemachus to then travel the ocean to Pylos…

is a key contributor to the way characters’ act in certain scenes that take place in the battlefield. The ambience of the battlefield has a very important role within the various battles and stories in the Battlefield. Early in the Iliad Paris and Menelaus prepare to square off it is clear that the battlefield modifies both of their personalities. As the Iliad progresses the effects of the battlefield are apparent again during an altercation between Patroclus and Hector where Patroclus’ life is…

warrior who assists the father of Helen, Menelaus. Two commendable traits of Achilles that we see are that he honors the gods and tries to make peace between the gods and the Greeks. Achilles is seen early on in the story to have argued in favor of honoring the gods, and he even opposes the Greek king Menelaus, who had angered the God Apollo by taking the daughter of Apollo’s priest. Achilles even gives up his own maiden he had stolen as a prize so Menelaus can return his maiden to the priest…

and did not believe that they would be defeated. The heroes in the Iliad are fighting over Helen, the wife of the Menelaus king. After Helen had been promised to the prince of troy by Aphrodite; Paris, the Prince of Troy, had taken Helen away to Troy. Angered, her husband had begun gathering an army to bring her back to him with the help of this dear brother. Successfully, Menelaus had gathered enough Greeks to support him in the war against the Trojans. Those that he gathered did not frown…