Trojan War

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…

In Homer’s epic poem, The Iliad, the Achaeans and Trojans abide by a deadly hero culture that compels them to fight for honour and glory, usually to their deaths. However, in this pursuit, the Achaean and Trojan warriors contrast greatly in their actions to achieve eternal glory. While the Trojans preserve their sense of civility and morality in the brutal setting of the Trojan War, the Achaeans resort to cruel acts of violence that demonstrate their lack of humanity. Using Homeric similes, this…

Question 1 In the poem ‘IIiad,' the poet discusses a quarrel between two characters which had started ten years after the Trojan War. This quarrel was caused by Agamemnon’s actions of taking away Briseis, Achilles’ slave girl. Agamemnon was revenging for what Achilles had done to him. He had asked the Greek army leaders to talk to Agamemnon and convince him to free Chryseis. Agamemnon was very angry because he realized that he was going to lose the girl. Consequently, Achilles was angry with the…

The city of Troy was a rich and powerful city. The Trojans controlled much land and were able to trade with many people around them. However they were not always rich, so how did they get to be? There are many poets who take hymns and descriptions of storytellers to give us the history of Troy in The lliad or The Odyssey, but non-are quite sure of how the city really started. The city of Troy was located on the northwest coast of what we call today, Turkey. There was no set Troy in the…

II of The Aeneid and it’s told by the Trojan Prince, Aeneas, to a Queen named Didio and her court. This long and tragic story begins with the 10-year war between the Greeks and Trojans. With the help of the goddess Minerva and her superhuman skills, the Greeks build an enormous wooden horse to gift the Trojans. Many great armed Greek soldiers hide within the horse and the rest of the Greeks flee Troy and hide behind an island. Trojans believe they won the war and contemplate to bring the giant…

the Trojan War, the gods are a central emphasis in the book. Most of the events that occur are the result of the gods. For example, they use their power to persuade the Trojan soldiers of the battle of Troy to get the outcome they want. The gods and goddesses in the story are constantly deceiving one another, causing disaster for themselves and the humans. It is safe to say the gods hold all the power, and they use that power on the mortals. The Iliad is set in the ending of the Trojan…

of the Iliad starts 9 years into the Trojan War. The reason the Achaeans and Greeks were battling it out like schoolboys was over a girl, Helen of troy, formerly the bride of Menelaus, who had run away with the prince of troy, Paris, who was granted the love of the most beautiful woman at the time by Aphrodite, the goddess of love, on the condition the he declared her the paramount goddess. He did, and thus he was awarded the love of Helen. Menelaus declares war on the state of Troy because his…

idea of the Trojan horse and made the Greeks win the Trojan war. After all, he survived the likes of Poseidon, the cyclops, the lotus eaters etc. And after his courageous journey he returned to Ithaca and restored piece in the island. Odysseus is very clever. According to J.Hunter, ''He was the originator of the trojan horse, the reason which the Greeks were finally able to take the city of Troy itself.'' With Odysseus idea of the trojan horse the Greeks finally outclassed the Trojans. And…

In “ The Odyssey” by Homer odysseus go to fight in the Trojan war and makes a decade long journey back home to Ithaca to find suitors trying to take over Ithaca and marry his wife. The gods were angered because odysseus's journey home took longer than expected. In the “ Hero's Journey” by Joseph Campbell supports the idea of odysseus is a brave hero. Three reasons to support that is supernatural aid which was the help from the gods. The call to adventure that is when he goes to Troy. The…

aggressive people who enjoyed fighting, hunting and athletic contests,” this does not come to a surprise that the Greeks would not jump to the chance to defeat an enemy; especially under the circumstances of the Trojan War. The Greeks and Trojans were followers of the immortal gods, that loved war, 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;…