Thetis

naughty. Zeus has a tendency of chasing after any woman he notices, and since he is the over ruling god he notices almost every single virgin, young, beautiful girl. There is a section of The Iliad where Achilles mother, Thetis, is begging Zeus to listen to Achilles plea. When Thetis is begging she bows down to him, and is very physical when pleading. Even though nothing ever happened sexually, Hera still suspected Zeus of doing the absolute worst in the…

Hera off Olympus to liberate herself from the ridicule that his appearance caused her (Graves 86-87, Cavendish 1268). Luckily, Hephaestus fell into the sea, where Thetis and Eurynome, sea nymphs, cared for him in their underwater grotto, giving him a workshop for him to make ornate objects (Graves 87). After nine years, Hera saw that Thetis was wearing one of Hephaestus’s brooches, and took him back to Olympus to set up a new workshop for him and arrange a marriage with Aphrodite (Graves 87).…

he has to suffer, every day he lives and sees the sun; and I can do no good by going to his side. But I will go, none the less, to see my darling child and hear what grief has come to him, although he has abstained from fighting.” Achilles mother, Thetis, says this, as she has to see her son suffer each day. I understand exactly where she is coming from and I cannot imagine how she must have felt. But she needed to know that with difficulty comes…

In The Odyssey, Odysseus has been separated from his family due to the Trojan War, and wishes to return. His son, now a grown man, is ruling his land and trying to stop suitors from marrying his mother and gaining power of the kingdom. “First by far to see her was Prince Telemachus, sitting among the suitors, heart obsessed with grief..” (Homer., Fagles, and Knox 81). Throughout the story, Odysseus encounters many situations. The last, and most famous, situation he was in was when he went in…

Mortality in Homer’s Iliad Mortality is one of the main qualities that set humans apart from the gods in the Iliad. The human characters of the Iliad are limited by their transience. However, Homer depicts how mortality can be morbidly powerful enough to move the reader and even the gods. The poet masterfully describes death and injuries throughout the play. Homer also shows the values the Greeks and Trojans shared on burial rites and the treatment of bodies. The poet not only focuses on…

The Greeks were known to be the concrete foundation of western civilization, everything from western literacy, philosophy, and government. The Greeks praised the gods and their heroes. The gods and heroes were part of their everyday lives. One of those heroes, Achilles, was seen as a sign of strength and power in the Greek society. The hero was considered to be immortal and invincible, no army could strike him down in war. He became a symbol of pride through the poems Homer sang. Even though…

passive behind the scenes role, Homer still portrays them in many different ways. First, Homer shows the beautiful war prizes Chryseis and Bryseis, who cause the feud between Agamemnon and Achilles. Then, he shows overprotective caretakers in Hecuba, Thetis and Adromache. Finally, he shows the goddesses Aphrodite and Hera interfering with the affairs of men at the same rate as the gods. The Iliad does not offer a very positive view of women, but two of the most prominent characters, Athena and…

The features of the Homeric gods will be discussed in this essay. The gods being that of Homers’ found in the Iliad, books I, IX, XVI and XXIV. With the help of G.M.A Grube’s article The Gods of Homer in which he presents his ideas on the gods of Homer and how their features and actions are depicted as humanlike throughout the epic. The human nature of gods in Iliad is made visible from their weakness to act out their emotions. Homer portrayed the gods as manipulative individuals that caused…

The Greek, Trojan, and Indian families all have different views of seeing family and most of the time put other things over family. Take for example how the Greeks and Trojans in The Iliad both valued glory over family, unlike the Indians who did not. The Indian families in The Ramayana are traditional and follow a caste system in which everyone has a dharma or duty. They value this system and honor their roles, like women who are to submit to their husbands. In The Iliad, the Trojans and…

The contrast between what Thetis desires to see, “She looked over his shoulder for vines and olive trees”, and what is the reality, “An artificial wilderness and a sky like lead”, is exemplary of his understanding of the social atmosphere during war and tension during the Cold War. The literary allusion of the ancient Greek myth “Achilles and Thetis” from Homer’s Iliad resonates with a wide audience and is used to highlight the continuity…