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    The Gods in the Iliad The gods take sides in the Iliad. The gods help their favorite mortals both directly and indirectly. Mortals fight gods and gods fight each other. The world of the Iliad is a world of cosmic conflict. On the side of the Greeks are: On the side of the Trojans are: Athena Aphrodite Hera Apollo Poseidon Artemis Hermes Leto Zeus

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    1. Motivation is something that inspires you to do your best or full potential. It amplifies your drive to do something‚ different people have different motivations like family‚ love one‚ children‚ or an artist‚ a goal you wanted badly to reach/ 2. Need for affiliation – love‚ family‚ friends‚ shelter‚ food‚ and clothing. Need for power – aggressiveness‚ and manipulating situations. Need of achievement 3. The Three elements of emotions are The Subjective Experience‚ The Physiological Response

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    Anger In The Iliad

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    According to The Iliad‚ the experiential truth of anger is what Achilles struggles with due to the fact that he feels he is being dishonored. The study of Ancient Anger states “The failure of the embassy demonstrates that Achilles is so locked into his blind self-absorption and anger that even the most powerful considerations of rational self-interest‚ of social prestige‚ and of the professed love of his friends are not capable of swaying him.” (Susanna Braund and Glenn W. Most.‚ p.66). He struggles

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    Themes Transformation of the Self/ Fate versus Chance and Free Will • Ransom explores the idea that personal transformation is an almost inevitable aspect of the human condition. • The journey from Troy to the Greek camps is symbolic of Priams’ transition and steady progression from King to Father and Man into human form. • The vision in which Priam seems himself “dressed in a plain white robe without ornament. No jewelled amulet at his breast’ is a vision of himself reduced to

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    which she actually wasn’t. She was simply a slave girl that Achilles in fact did fall in love with and Agamemnon did steal from him. And she didn’t kill Agamemnon like they said in the movie Troy. Agamemnon actually made it back home where his wife and her lover murdered him. Altho Hector was a great warrior in his time‚ after he killed Patroclus‚ he didn’t actually come out to face Achilles as easily as the movie depicts it. Achilles chased him around the walls of Troy 3 times before he actually

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    Ransom Vs Atonement

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    Both texts are concerned with individuals who want to shape the way a story is told and to make that story redeem the lives of those at its centre. Discuss. Redemption is as an act performed by an individual to convince oneself that they are free from the crimes that they had committed. It relies on the redeemer themselves; redemption is achieved once the wrongdoer is satisfied that they have done what they can to repent for their deeds. Ransom by David Malouf is set during the time of the Trojan

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    The Nature of the Hero from Pre-classical to Medieval Every time period has its heroes‚ from the heroes of Pre-classical time such as‚ Achilles and Hector. The heroes of Classical times such as‚ Aeneas in the Epic poem Aeneid. Then there are those heroes of the medieval time such as‚ Beowulf and Sir Gawain. Heroes change over time and they come and go‚ leaving there mark in history. Throughout these time periods the nature of the hero changes but‚ not everything changes there are some things that

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    References: Bryant‚ William Cullen‚ trans. The Iliad of Homer. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co.‚ 1935. Graves‚ Robert. The Anger of Achilles. New York: Pyramid Publications‚ 1959. Lattimore‚ Richard‚ trans. The Iliad of Homer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press‚ 1951. Nicoll‚ Aliardyce‚ ed. Chapman ’s Homer. Vol. I. New York: Pantheon Books‚ 1956. Rouse‚ William H. D.‚ trans. The Iliad

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    The Iliad and Today

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    The characters portrayed in the Iliad are culturally similar to the people living in the United States today‚ but they are also different from us in several ways. The people that lived during the time of Homer had different ideas on many issues. The way they viewed things were somewhat different to how we view things today. This is to be expected because throughout history many events reshaped their views and beliefs. Events such as disasters‚ plagues‚ and wars occurred which brought about change

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    Commodification in Ilad

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    argument between Achilles and Agamemnon over Briseis‚ who was considered a war prizeThey brought back the spoils and divided them equally among the warriors. Agamemnon’s prize was Chryseis‚ the daughter of a priest of the god Apollo. Achilles’ reward was a maiden named Briseis. Both women were taken against their will. Unfortunately for Agamemnon‚ Chryseis’ father begged for his daughter to be released and offered huge amounts of treasures as ransom. In return‚ Agamemnon took Briseis‚ Achilles prize‚ and

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