4th October 2012 Hector or Achilles? Hector and Achilles are both great warriors and great people but they are different. They are considered to be heroes‚ but they fight for different reasons. Troy is filled with many great warriors‚ but the most honourable hero is prince Hector. He shows great qualities of the archetypal hero and the contemporary hero‚ fight for his land and his family honour. Even though he’s not the strongest‚ he just wanted peace‚ as an archetypal hero.
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of heroes. The Iliad‚ an epic about the revenge of Achilles against Hector for slaying Patroclus‚ there are two types of heroes: an epic hero and a modern hero. The Iliad is set in the 12th to 13th century during a war with the Trojans and the Greeks caused by the love affair between Helen and Paris. Although Hector and Achilles are both heroes‚ Achilles is an epic hero while Hector is a modern hero due to particular attributes. Granted‚ Achilles is the epic hero of the story because he obtains help
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the blind bard in a captivatingly realistic way. Not long after the opening scene of the epic‚ Achilles is seen trying to show Agamemnon how wrong it is that he would think to steal Achilles’s girl‚ and uses the “ethos” argument to prove it. He tells him‚ “I don’t have any quarrel with the Trojans‚ they didn’t do anything to me to make me come over here and fight . . . It’s
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9/11/12 The Iliad “Sing‚ goddess‚ the anger of Peleus son Achilles and it’s devastation which put pains thousandfold upon the Achains‚ hurled in their multitudes to the house of Hades strong souls of heroes‚ but gave their bodies to be in the delicate feasting of dogs‚ of all birds‚ and the will of Zeus was accomplished since that time when first there stood in division of conflict Atreus’ son the lord of men and brilliant Achilles.” The easiest way to remember text is to set it to music
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killing of the Achaean troops while making the other troops weaker with the plague. After the nine days of death being rained down on the troops‚ Achilles called an assembly to discuss what greeks did to anger the gods. White-armed Hera‚ wife of Zeus and goddesses of marriage‚ has put the idea of the assembly into Achilles mind. “On the tenth‚ Achilles summoned a assembly. White-armed Hera put that thought into his
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of the Trojan War‚ the central character and the greatest warrior of Homer’s The Iliad. Achilles was the son of the nymph Thetis and Peleus‚ the king of the Myrmidons.] Considered as the hero of the epic. [He possesses the characteristics of an epic hero‚ namely kleos‚time`‚menis‚ menos‚ and tisis. - When Agamemnon takes away his girl‚ Brisies‚ as a replacement for Crisises‚ burning with rage Achilles prays to Thetis‚ his Goddess mother‚ to convince Zeus to help the Trojans gain ground
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Within both The Aeneid and Iliad‚ there is a strong urge to present a world in which wars are glorious‚ the gods have a direct hand in human events‚ and these deities influence fate. Through the representation of two similarly “blessed” protagonists‚ Achilles and Aeneas‚ the reader is able to view the ways in which these two cultural issues intertwine and attempt to create a picture of the ancient world which is at once brutally real and filled with the magical and supernatural of the gods. Throughout
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The Iliad‚ an epic poem by Homer‚ focuses on Achilles’ wrath and its consequences: That cursed wrath‚ which caused numberless pains to Achaeans; Many mighty spirits it sent to Hades of heroes‚ and turned them into prey to dogs And feast to birds.(1.2-5) Although Achilles and Hector are both mighty warriors who share the same values‚ they have different backgrounds‚ personalities‚ and reasons for fighting. Homer presents Achilles‚ the son of Peleus‚ a mortal‚ and of Thetis‚ a
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expressed and contain the similes. The selected passage describes the fight between Achilles and Hector. In fact‚ the scene tells how fierce Achilles chases after Hector. Furthermore‚ it describes how Hector gets frightened as facing his death by means of the similes: Hector looked up‚ saw him‚ started to tremble‚ nerve gone‚ he could hold his ground no longer‚ he left the gates behind and away he fled in fear- and Achilles went for him‚ fast‚ sure of his speed as the wild mountain hawk‚ the quickest
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thoughts. Achilles is renowned as a warrior and a strong man and even his raw emotions and thoughts are revealed by Malouf. This allows the reader to establish that Achilles mind‚ “even in its passive state‚ the most active part of him.” The closeness of the relationship between Achilles and Patroclus is drawn upon by Achilles own reflections on his soulmate. Achilles describes Patroclus as the‚ “other before he could fully become himself‚” and his recollection that‚ “he had been mated with Achilles‚” solidifies
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