of the story. Achilles‚ a warrior from The Iliad‚ can relate to this. Achilles emerges as a sympathetic character in The Iliad because people took from him‚ and because he showed mercy to people who did not fully deserve it. As the king of the Myrmidons‚ people would view Achilles as one who has almost everything he wants - which would be false because people took from him. When Agamemnon refused to spare
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Key Questions for Book XVI 1. Achilles does not agree to end his grudge with Agamemnon at the request of Patroclus as the great warrior views what Agamemnon has done – snatching his prize right from his grasp‚ the beautiful and clever princess Briseis – as an insult to his pride and honour. The fact that‚ according to the epic‚ Agamemnon did so in front of the rest of the Achaean army‚ only adds to Achilles’ humiliation. 2. Achilles agrees that instead of him casting away his grief and thinking
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which Homer’s The Iliad is able to illustrate the lives of normal people although the epic was generally based around war heroes. In it‚ Homer expresses to us that these war heroes are no different than us‚ as they also make mistakes‚ are stubborn and often need to apologize as shown by the example of Agamemnon and Achilles. During the progression of the plot of this well-known epic‚ Agamemnon attempts to apologize to Achilles by a rather “low” method. He hopes to guilt trip Achilles by sending three
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2B November 2015 Achilles is a strong courageous hero. Achilles is strong because of everything he has been through and he is one of the strongest heroes in Greek history. He chased hector back to troy and gathered the Trojans on the way. He is courageous because of many of the strategic decisions for the army that are made thought. He has helped the army in many ways and he has respect from a lot of people. Achilles killed Priams Jon and caused him pain but Achilles did not let anything get
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Three stages of Achilles Achilles is a great warrior who faces many different situations in his life. These scenarios changed him into who he has become in his life according to the Iliad. Throughout the Iliad his emotions range anger‚ rage‚ and compassion. When he gets angry it’s because of Agamemnon taking Briseis from him. He gets rage from when the Trojans kill his cousin. Achilles becomes compassionate when the King of Troy comes to ask for his son’s body back. At the beginning of the war
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of life. Achilles‚ in his quest to seek vengeance for the death of his be-loved friend‚ Patroclus‚ becomes distant as he struggles to remain emotionally intact‚ being unable to grasp onto the warrior and the leader he once was. Similarly‚ Priam’s better judgement and role as the King of Troy are clouded by the slaying of his son‚ Hector‚ acting irrationally‚ by conjuring up a precarious journey virtuously from a vision as a result of the trauma he has experienced from witnessing Achilles actions on
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way that the fight between Achilles and Hektor is portrayed. In the Iliad‚ the Trojan army starts running into the city walls when they see Achilles approaching on his chariot towards them. Instead of running‚ Hektor stays to fight him but ends up running away from him and runs around the city walls. This is shown in the Iliad - book 22‚ line 126-127 - with the quote of‚ ‘Hector’s flight… along the wall he flew‚’ which shows him running away from the vengeful Achilles. In the movie Troy‚ Hektor is
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In the Iliad‚ Homer mentions the Gods intervening with the mortals throughout the whole book. The gods are often used to show comic release throughout the seriousness of the war. But throughout the book‚ it seems that Homer portrays the gods to have more human like qualities than godly qualities. Throughout the book‚ Homer likes to portray the gods with mortal-human like qualities. The gods act very human like when they choose sides between the Greeks and Trojans; they fight among each other like
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Achilles’ Decision on the Embassy An extremely large problem in the world today and in Homeric times as well‚ is people not knowing how to set their pride aside and clean up their own messes. In Book IX of The Iliad‚ we see Agamemnon’s struggle with war and Achilles personal war in his own head. Achilles is not a door mat for Agamemnon‚ nor should he be; Achilles is a great warrior. Book IX truly illustrates what kind of men they both are. Achilles is right to refuse the embassy in Book IX because
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List of possible subjects on the final exam Achilles- Achilles was a powerful hero in Homer’s Iliad‚ and undoubtedly the greatest warrior on the battlefield at Troy. In his youth‚ he had been a pupil of Chiron. When Achilles was just an infant‚ his mother immersed him in the river Styx‚ which separates the land of the living from the land of the dead‚ to confer on him immortality‚ and to make him invincible in battle. But when doing this‚ she committed a grave error. Through her
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