Winslow Homer

Rage, the first word in The Iliad, is defined as a violent or uncontrolled anger. Homer fills this epic poem with the theme of rage. Correspondingly, it is Achilles’ rage in the ninth year of the Trojan War that sets the action of this epic. As Simone Weil expresses in the essay The Iliad or the Poem of Force, the “center” of the epic is the force or violence that dehumanizes both parties involved in the war. That force, which is the sun of the poem, is orbited by rage: Achilles’ incentive that…

and the Greeks have returned home. One of the most well known epic poems, The Odyssey, a mythological Grecian epic poem that has been verbally passed down for centuries, it was finally written down between 900 and 700 BC by the influential scholar Homer. It is literally the journey home from the Trojan War for Odysseus, ruler of Ithaca. Having left Troy with ships full of supplies and men, Odysseus mostly survives on his own, confronting various dangers and mishaps that keep him away from…

emotional and physical characteristics of characters to convey either a metaphorical or a literal teaching in their story. In the Iliad, Homer uses the characteristics strength, pride, and courage to teach many lessons on certain values that has changed and improved my life. In the novel, Homer uses prominent individuals to show that even the strongest falls. First, Homer portrays the characters as fearsome and untouchable then surprises the reader by showing their venerability. Zeus is the…

mother, and your royal name.” In the Odyssey the Cyclops is seen crying on the cliff, “calling out to his father Poseidon for vengeance.” These two examples tell us that society is driven by power, family names, and social order. Along with power, Homer and Vyasa both yearn for respecting their country, home, and teachers. Ulysses was being kept captive at Calypso’s cave, one of the many places he visited, and was being persuaded to marry her; however, he deemed that “there is nothing dearer to…

I chose the greek heroes Theseus and Atalanta to compare with thor and the black widow. I chose theseus and atalanta because they show similar morals and values as captain america and the black widow. In greek mythology theseus was a hero and looked up to because not only because he was strong and courageous but he was also intelligent and wise. Atalanta was seen as a hero in greek mythology because despite her being a female she was still an incredible athlete and when it came to hunting and…

Who, in pop culture, does society consider a hero? What does it take to become a hero? Greek hero stories, like Theseus, helps society create more popular hero stories, such as the Hunger Games. If Theseus is a hero then Katniss Everdeen is also a hero because both stories have very similar outlines. The first part of a hero’s journey is the departure. Within this part of the journey, there is the unusual birth, call to adventure, and crossing the threshold. Katniss is born into a dystopian…

Achilles the morning after his darkest hours, mourning Patroclus's death. Thetis presented Achilles with brand new armor, so mighty, that “a tremor ran through all the Myrmidon ranks--none dared to looks straight at the glare, each fighter share away” (Homer.19.17-18).” The only one who did not look away was Achilles, because he knew that this was the stability he needed. The armor was the final push he needed to end his sorrow and streak of chaos and sadness. As previously aforementioned, it…

Society is always changing, but there are underlying universal truths that. In Aristophanes's Birds, Athenians Pithetaerus and Euelipides seek asylum from the monstrous nature of the corrupt and greedy politicians that plague the human world by joining their perceived utopia with the birds, but find that the hunger for power is universal throughout civilization. Where Aristophanes tells about the troubling nature of humans through the characterization of birds, Plato addresses his own personal…

I choose these two stories because there are many similarities and differences in both stories. I want to describe, how the lives of the two young men were before and after the war. The journey and the struggles, they both overcame to become the men they are today. In the Hemingway story The Revolutionist and Soldier’s Home have many similarities and differences between Harold Krebs and the Hungarian man and the tone of the stories. First, the similarities, Krebs in the Soldier’s Home went to…

Homer’s poem, The Odyssey, is a story of, Odysseus, the hero behind the Trojan Horse. After ten years fighting and then winning the Trojan War, Odysseus sets for home. Unfortunately, he unexpectedly faces much adversity in his travels, including becoming a goddess’ sex slave and losing all of his men to the sun god. It takes Odysseus another ten years to finally get home, where he must fight to take back his wife and thrown. On August 21, 2017, I will be 34 years old and I have lived an epic…