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to unleash a plague. The plague raged until Agamemnon returned the girl. Agamemnon then claimed Achilles’ ‘prize’ Briseis as compensation, despite Achilles threatening to leave the army. Achilles then asked his mother, Thetis, to procure the aid of Zeus for the opposing army. Thetis did this, and Zeus agrees to help. Zeus sent a dream down to Agamemnon…

Abdul Rahman Zindani Dr. Rigoni Paper #1 The Value of the Gods to Achilles Throughout most of The Iliad, Achilles spends his time avoiding the battle against the Trojans rather than supporting his fellow Achaeans on the battlefield. Achilles’s personal values seem to greatly influence his reasons as to why he shouldn’t go out to fight. In Book 9, Achilles’s speech refers to many different values that could justify his reasons for holding back (225). Of these values, Achilles is most vocal…

something decent. Achilles cleaned up the defiled body of Hector and delivered him to his father Priam for burial and the two ate dinner together. By showing sympathy and decency, Achilles was able to reach Areté. Achilles was born the son of a goddess Thetis and the Greeks perceived him as a hero. So for him to reach Areté was important for the ancient Greeks. The Greek view of how the gods valued human life is an indication of how the Greeks valued human life. After Achilles’ noble act to…

In spite of being one of the incidental causes of the Trojan War, Helen of Troy was the most alluring female in all of Greece. Zeus is the father of Helen, and her mother thought to be either Nemesis or Leda since there are many different versions of the story. In addition, Helen might be the sister of the Dioscuri (the mortals Polydeuces and Castor) because they share the same father, but it is unexplained if they share the same mother. However, the Dioscuri seems to possibly have a different…

The Iliad; “the first great book about the suffering and loss of war”, stated by Rachel Bespaloff in On the Iliad. “Its subject is war; its characters are men in battle and women whose fate depends on the outcome.” One may ask why does Homer writes about this and why it is so gruesome like. It’s to catch the human eye, with in-depth descriptions and brutality which is nearly a copy of what everyday life on this planet is today. There’s always murder, battles, and war occurring for food,…

anvil, and a pair of tongs. Hephaestus was also the son of Zeus and Hera, after he was born Hera his mother threw him out of Olympus because he was born crippled. He then fell into the ocean and was raised by Thetis and Eurynome. Athena was the Greek virgin goddess of reason, intelligent activity arts and, literature. Athena was the daughter of Zeus as well, but she did not have a birth mother. She was bounded full…

Uranus the primal Greek god personifying the sky. His equivalent in Roman mythology was Caelus. In Ancient Greek literature, Uranus or Father Sky was the son and husband of Gaia, Mother Earth. According to Hesiod's Theogony, Uranus was conceived by Gaia alone, but other sources cite Aether as his father. Uranus and Gaia were the parents of the first generation of Titans, and the ancestors of most of the Greek gods, but no cult addressed directly to Uranus survived into Classical times, and…

bride”, and there is a hint that women always have to change herself and endure everything to “fit the ideals of a man.” Even if women changed themselves to survive and have better relation, men are so selfish and unfaithful. An Example for this is “Thetis” the women tried to change herself to fulfill the man desires, and for love. Duffy says she’s “a bird in the hand of man”, but she was squeezed by the man’s fist. Then she tries to be albatross, and then snake. But there is no reward for this,…

Eli Johnson Ms. Windish English II 11/22/16 Achilles today is now known as a Hero and a Legend, but was once known as a man who was simply born into greatness. His father was Peleus King of the Myrmidons, and his mother was a Nymph named Thetis. When Achilles was first born, his mother wanted him to be safe and therefore came up with idea to bath him in the Styx river to make him immortal, but she held him by his heels when she dipped him in so that was the only part of his body that wasn’t…

Gods and Stars Many people believe that there is no such thing as an original thought. This idea stretches as far as literature, claiming that every story has already been told. While this may not be entirely true, there are many novels that seem to have very similar plot lines. Homer’s “The Iliad,” and Virgil’s “The Aeneid,” seem to have plot lines that nearly mirror each other in several circumstances. In several scenes, there are frequent instances where the two novels appear identical. The…