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    their disparities between the film, Troy, and The Odyssey: Agamemnon: Agamemnon is slaughtered by Briseis toward the end of the film. In The Odyssey, Menelaus…

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    bloodshed to continue by refusing to let the war end. After days of battling, the two armies call a cease-fire and a single duel, between Menelaus and Paris, to decide to war. Menelaus defeats Paris, however, Paris is flown to safety by Aphrodite before Menelaus can usher the final blow (141). The mortals, despite Aphrodite 's attempt to spoil the duel, declare Menelaus the winner and demand that the Trojans accept their defeat. However, Athena convinces the trojans to break the truce and the…

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    Different experiences change us in ways we would have never expected. When Telemachus leaves his home in Ithaca on a mission to find his father and gain his peace of mind back, these changes are evident. Before meeting Athena, Telemachus was weak and passive towards the suitors. Although, when he begins his journey to find his father he becomes much more assertive rather than passive. When he learns that his father was a well known and very likable man, it gives him the confidence and hope that…

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    He burned to avenge the struggles and the groans of Helen” (Iliad 550-555) Menelaus was tested by the gods during the war for his wife, Helen, the same gods which have passed unfortunate events towards Menelaus’ family. It was Atreus whose marital status which was questionable. Pelops did not transmit the curse to his children because he did not share the occurrence of a lost woman. Although…

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    Showing welcome was the simplest way to bring fame and fortune to yourself and your family within the time of ancient Greece. The link among a guest, and host wasn 't solely polite, but it thus might confirm what would happen to you. Within the Odyssey, Homer uses the connection among guests-hosts as the simplest way to point out the behavior of the characters. Once a decent relationship of guests-hosts was acted out properly the result was continually fortunate for the guests and also the host.…

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    drug/speech has a curious effect upon its audience. It provokes a second recollection of Odysseus’ exploits at Troy, this one by Menelaus. His tale is clearly the doublet of his wife’s, since they both begin with the same words: “but such a thing as this the strong man did and endured” (Odyssey iv 242 = iv 271). But this doublet counteracts the rhetoric of its model. For Menelaus belies Helen’s claim of new-found loyalty to the Greeks, when he mentions (apparently en passant) her second Trojan…

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    home with Menelaus her husband. And some say that she was in love with Paris and she willingly ran away with him. Nonetheless the way that Homer told it was that she was stolen…

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    be found in the book titled, The Red Haired King and His Lady, where Menelaus and Helen tell Telemachus about the Trojan War and his father Odysseus; in the book titled, The Song of the Harper, where a minstrel plays the story of the perils and glory of the Trojan War; and lastly, in the book titled, The Beggar at the Manor, where Odysseus and a dying dog reunite after twenty…

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    Iris In The Iliad

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    From this passage in the Iliad, Homer actively surveys the relevance of fate by using dialogue, imagery, and shifts of focus in the order of events. In context, Menelaus had just confirmed the duel between himself and Paris. Leading Iris the messenger goddess to spread the news to unsuspecting Helen in the form of Helen’s sister-in-law “the wife of Antenor’s / son, whom strong Heliakon wed, son of Antenor” (3.122, 123). Although Homer is describing a female, the repetition of the phrase “son of…

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    Often, what we see may not be consistent with what we believe, and as a result cause us confusion. Illusion is usually used in the form of disguise where a mask is put on by an individual to hide the person’s identity. This is the common method by which illusion is used; however, a more complex and multidimensional use of illusion is to cause mystification by creating a situation where a person’s blatant identity is put into question. In such instances, the questioned individual wears a…

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