Menelaus

”, which is another example how his country motivates him unlike Achilles, who only fight for himself and to earn fame. The war in Troy was started because his brother Paris started having a secret love affair with Menelaus ' wife, Queen Helen, and eventually took her away from Menelaus and back to Troy. When Paris told his brother Hector, Hector was frustrated at him because he knew there was going to be trouble Troy and the Greeks. Hector at this point had loved his…

man unlike coward and selfish Paris. When Paris tried to escape from single combat with Menelaus to take away Helen legitimately from Menelaus, Hector disappointed at Paris, “Trojans must be timid men. If not, for all the evil things you’ve done by now you’d wear a garment made of stones” (Homer 3.29). Hector thinks if he does not do single combat he is timid men, because Paris already made promise with Menelaus about single combat, but he is trying to escape from it. Hector believes once men…

it can be misinterpreted. I am going to discuss how the Kyrios, mother, and the children can both be accurately portrayed or inaccurately simply depending on which myth you read. The two myths I chose to explore this concept further are Agamemnon, Menelaus, Nestor and Cercrops, Erichthonius, and Erechtheus. In these Greek myths, familial roles are portrayed in both effective and ineffective ways which highlight the expectations surrounding the structure of the Okios, or family unit, as well as…

“We are free to choose our actions, . . . but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions.” -Stephen R. Covey.(“StevenR.CoveyQuotes”) If people thought about the consequences of their actions before they did them and didn’t always live in the moment there would be less pain caused by the people around us. In The Odyssey, Odysseus went to Troy to go to war, but on the way back to Ithaca he encounters many challenges along the way. In the movie Troy, Pairs is the prince of Troy and…

epitome of mistrust. He is an epic failure because he doesn’t trust the people around him. An example of this is his mistrust of himself, his friends and his mentor Athena. He doesn’t trust Menelaus and Agamemnon to keep him safe during the Siege of Troy. This, and the fact that his son was born the day Menelaus and Agamemnon sail into harbor, are the reasons why he doesn’t want to go to war. He doesn’t trust Athena to keep him safe during the Siege of Troy. This is why he prays at Athena’s…

The Iliad is a poem accredited to the Ancient Greek poet Homer. The Iliad tells the story of the conflict between an alliance of Greek Cities and the City of Troy, following the kidnapping of Helen of Sparta by Paris. The Iliad focuses only on two weeks out of the ten years the conflict is said to have lasted. The Trojan War is said to have been committed to paper around the eighth century BCE. However, this poem was recited orally for centuries before it was written down. Despite the poem being…

During this time, art was mainly created to tell a story, typically being the narrative of Greek heroes and Gods or myths. Here we see four figures: Ajax, Achilles, Menelaus and Amasos. Ajax, on the right side of the image, bends down to lift Achilles’ dead body, while to the left we see Menelaus about to strike one of Memnon’s black attendants, Amasos. This scene puts into play a few major themes in this piece. War and death are most prevalent, but there is also the representation…

In ancient Greece, hospitality it is an unspoken rule of their culture. This theme of respect for both host and guest is carried throughout Homer’s The Odyssey. Hospitality was the glue that held Greece together, seeing as it (in retrospect) maintained order among the Greeks from different regions. The Greeks used the term “Xenia” as a way to describe the generosity or courtesy shown to strangers, no matter the condition, and creating a relationship between guest and host. It is postulated…

For my final project, I will compare two pieces of art and show the comparisons and differences that they have in the Greek ancient period and the modern period of the same theme “the representation of the Trojan war”. The visual work art is a bilingual art because it was made with the participation of two artists, Andokides (Red figure) and the Lysippides (Black figure) and it is titled “Achilles and Ajax Playing a Dice a Game”. It was painted in 525–520 B.C in Greece and it represents the…

The article Between Lions and Men 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…