advocating violence. In The Iliad‚ violence seems to be a necessary factor for the purpose of the tale: to describe the brutal battle that was the Trojan War. However‚ violence was still seen as controversial. For example‚ in Book I‚ line 187‚ King Agamemnon says to the war hero Achilles‚ “You actually like fighting and war…”‚ showing that violence and war are not common place pleasures. Thomas Palaima‚ a professor of classical studies at the University of Austin-Texas‚ performed a study and found
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flow of the story to make it more beautiful and appropriate for their theme. After viewing the movie‚ there are lot of differences between the book Iliad and the movie Helen of Troy. Like in the movie‚ Achilles is one of the faithful followers of Agamemnon but in the book‚ Achilles disgusts him and didn’t participate in the war until Patroclus was killed by Hector. Also in the movie‚ Hector didn’t seem to participate in the battle but in the book‚ he is the one who leads the soldiers of Troy. There
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on the faces of each character in this painting drew me in even more. I wanted to know more: Why? Who? What was about to happen? At first glance‚ it seemed as though the woman in the background‚ Clytemnestra the mother‚ is being disturbed. King Agamemnon‚ the man portrayed in the foreground‚ appears to be directing the soldier‚ Achilles‚ as he is about to strike. After reading the history behind the painting‚ I better understand the expressions shown and see how they enhance the story that David
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Clytaemnestra to kill Agamemnon and Apollo commands Orestes to kill Clytaemnestra‚ his mother. In the other hand‚ the gods give Turnus and Aeneas the choice to kill or not to kill. The other aspect is‚ Virgil’s deaths and violent acts are between family‚ while Aeschylus’ acts of violence are between strangers. Aeschylus justifies Clytaemnestra’s when she kills Agamemnon because he sacrificed their daughter to the god Artemis. She says‚ “My child is gone. That is my self-defense” (Agamemnon 876). She
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justifiable reason to have kicked Agamemnon to the curb. Not only does Agamemnon kill her daughter just so he can go to war –talk about daddy problems-‚ but they begin much before that when Agamemnon kills her first husband and son and then takes her as property from the man he just defeated. Also Clytemnestra has been cursed since birth to be an adulterer which is a small part of the reason she decides to take Aegisthus as a lover; to finish everything off Agamemnon is gone for ten years in troy and
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Each section begins with a bold phrase that summarizes the event. A sudden blow’ initiates the octave and a shudder in the loins’ the sestet. The octave is written in the present tense. The first three lines of the sestet look to the future‚ Agamemnon dead’. The last three lines look back on the violent encounter. The two-part structure is repeated again in the grammatical construction. Each half contains two sentences‚ each a complete stanza. The first and third sentences are declarations
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usually have something to do with the bible or mythical people and events. In the poem‚ there is one really important allusion. The allusion is located in the third stanza when the poet writes‚ “The broken wall‚ the burning roof and the tower / And Agamemnon dead” (Yeats II. 10-11). This passage shows how these actions that the Swan is performing with Leda lead to the fall of Troy. Together‚ the Swan‚ who is actually Zeus‚ and Leda have a baby. The child’s name is Helen. Helen is also known as Helen
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the main protagonist really has some of these characteristics. In terms of Aristotle’s definition of a tragic hero‚ Electra is considered as a tragic hero. First‚ she is an individual of noble stature; she is a daughter of Agamemnon‚ King of Mycenae‚ and Clytemnestra‚ which makes her a royalty. Second is‚ he/ she is not perfect‚ hence the tragic flaw or hamartia. Electra’s tragic flaw would be her emotions. She is too emotional; she is overwhelmed by her
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river – Akhilleus’ killing spree o Two lookouts – Spies? Or the Gods? o Or this could be the part about the lying dream atack of the Greeks o Two lookouts killed the approaching sheeps(Trojans) Sheeps (Akhaian army) led by their herdsmen (Agamemnon) besiegers heard the sound of the cattle stampede (Akhilleus and the myrmidons) Battle lines were drawn (Trojan war!) Start of the war? – When Paris took Helen from Menelaos Akhilleus and Agamemnon’s disagreement o Here then strife & uproar
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Fiorelis Guillen Lit 230‚ Section 6‚13 Professor Majeske November 14‚ 2013 Clytemnestra notices Orestes In 458 BC‚ Agamemnon was murdered by his own wife‚ Clytemnestra. Orestes‚ the son of Agamemnon‚ has come back home from exile to avenge Agamemnon’s death with his friend Pylades. Orestes cuts two locks of hair as an offering to a river in Argos‚ and also to the spirit of his father. After making these offerings‚ Orestes sees his sister Electra coming up to their fathers tomb‚ with the
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