Troy VII

Throughout the history of literature, there have been many different examples of the characteristics present in a heros. Such works of literature come from great ancient societies such as the Greeks and the Romans. “Ancient Greek society placed considerable emphasis on literature and, according to many, the whole Western literary tradition began there, with the epic poems of Homer.”(Mastin) Examples of these include Homer’s, The Iliad and The Odyssey, as well as Virgil’s The Aeneid. The heroes…

When a warrior dies in Homer’s Iliad and Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War, he loses his ability to take control of his own life. Having surrendered to his fate (moira), the duty to protect the fallen warrior falls upon his comrades. These warriors feel that they have a moral duty to protect the bodies of the fallen, particularly those who died in service to their communities and cities (poleis). If a man does not die in the line of duty, however, his body may not receive the same…

In the Iliad, written by Homer comes a great Epic written back in Ancient Greek time, no specific time period, around 750 B.C. The story starts about nine years after the Trojan War has started. We see many great characters in this story that express themselves throughout the story. Satterfield states, “Were our Iliad like the more traditional story apparently proposed in the poem, however, it would be a fundamentally different story. It would end before Achilles reenters the battle to kill 0;…

home (Rome) and ending with a battle against a tribe because of a marriage. Both stories deal with triumphs battles, hope, anger, and Gods with different names. It is interesting how both line up against each other because of one battle (the Fall of Troy) yet both men are dealing with far different things in different…

African who was fighting for the Persians, to his chariot and drove the body around the castle that the African was protecting. People that read the Iliad can compare it to when Achilles tied Hector’s body to his chariot and drove it around the city of Troy. Both Achilles and Alexander were known to take out their anger in…

The Iliad and the Aeneid are both two of the greatest epic poems in history. They still exist today as alive as they were told long ago. Both written by two amazing scholars, Homer and Virgil have once again astounded us with amazing stories of hero’s, war, and honor. But what truly make a hero a hero in these two stories? A hero can be imagined as a big, strong man in a cape that flies around the city. The truth is that muscles and strength doesn’t make someone a hero, it is the qualities that…

of the Trojan horse and destroyed the city. At the time, he wanted to stay and fight, but as their leader, he had a duty to his crew. Not wanting to risk their safety, he left the ruins alive. Although they were shipwrecked on their voyage out of Troy, they found their way to Carthage. Upon their arrival, Aeneas meets Dido and falls in love. Dido is amazed at Aeneas' story and wants him to stay in…

Is Troy true? There are many different theories about the history of Troy like; If the city of Troy ever existed, or did the Battle of Troy ever even happened. The story behind the Battle of Troy is that the prince of troy steals King Menelaus's wife, and it causes a war between the two kingdoms. But no one actually knows if this popular tale is true, or has any evidence to prove it is or isn’t. The Greek Poet Homer, author of the Iliad included in the epic, the battles of Troy and evidence…

centuries between them, the epics are built around the story of the Trojan War fought around 1200 BC. The Iliad focuses on a short period in the penultimate year of the war whereas the Aeneid accounts the journey of Aeneas after the destruction of Troy to settle in the new land of Hesperia and the Odyssey captures the journey of Odysseus’s homecoming ten years after the end of the ten-year Trojan War. Homer influenced many writers in the ancient Greek and Roman culture, particularly Vergil. The…

your gates, / none of all the Trojans, sons of Priam least of all!”(Il. 21.17-19) In contrast, in “The Aeneid,” Aeneas’ intentions are not to destroy a civilization, but to begin a new one. His journey is to find a new land to settle, and to rebuild Troy, which would eventually become Rome. Another major difference is the amount of involvement of the gods. In “The Iliad,” when Zeus declares that other gods are not to be involved in the Trojan war, it was a decree to stop all the gods from…