Over the thousands of years that the epic story the Iliad has survived‚ there has no doubt been some form of alteration to Homer’s original. Last May‚ Wolfgang Petersen directed a movie based on the Iliad. This movie‚ Troy‚ has proven to be a very loose adaptation of Homer’s original‚ as are almost all stories that are made into movies‚ unfortunately. With its timeless storyline‚ amazing scenery‚ gorgeous actors/actresses and most of all‚ its reported two hundred million dollar budget‚ it is easy
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Euripides IV - Iphigenia in Aulis p. 217 - 300 (83 pages) ---------------------------------------- All info up to 230 was lost. Just follow highlighted areas. ---- May fill in these blanks later--- RECALL THE INTRODUCTION -------------------------------------------- p 231 A lot more politically themed. Menelaus is accusing Agamemnon of feigning humility in order to gain political power and “market advancement.”He says he’s abandoned his old friends. ;/He is also saying that Agamemnon
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he shows much greed when arriving in Sparta. while in Sparta‚ Paris tries to take Helen away from Menelaus . This makes Paris a non hero because a hero would be someone who would stay true to himself and not try to hurt other people for no reason at all. "Leave Menelaus and come with me"(213) Paris says. In this quote Paris is trying to get Helen to leave Menelaus and to go away with him. He shows no regard for Helen and Menelaus knowing that they are truly in love with each other. This is showing
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where they actually took human form so they could go out onto the battlefield to support the humans. For example: in the third book of the novel “Iliad”‚ a truce is made so that Menelaus and Paris can meet in single combat‚ and the winner will take Helen and all her treasures home with him. Solemn oaths are sworn by both sides to abide by the outcome of the duel. However‚ Paris suddenly loses his nerve and turns back to the troops. His brother Hector who is the leader of the Trojan army is mortified
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Trojan princes‚ Hector and Paris. Paris‚ who is essentially blamed for the instigation of the Trojan-Greek war‚ fails to appear on the battlefield to defend his home. Paris has chosen instead to stay at home with his bride Helen‚ for whom the Trojan armies fight. However‚ as Helen describes to Paris’ brother‚ Hector‚ “I wish I had been the wife of a better man‚ someone alive to outrage‚ with withering scorn of men” (Iliad VI. 415-417) that even she
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the fierce warrior he is really portrayed as in the epic. This gives the modern audience a kind of sensitivity towards Achilles‚ who has lost his cousin Patrocles and now he has slaughtered the prince of Troy‚ who like him‚ cherished his family. Helen was in the end taken by Menelaus‚ and Menelaus was not executed by Hector. By doing this Petersen gave the film a kind of good guy gets the girl sort feeling‚ as Paris is appeared to be honest and safe‚ despite the fact that he brought about the war
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Troy. Between the book and the film there are a wealth of differences‚ and similarities only lie in the basic‚ undisputed ideas. "The Iliad" begins in the ninth year of the ten year siege of the Greeks upon Troy‚ whereas the movie shows Paris taking Helen away from Troy angering Menelaus in the process. The Greeks sail across the Aegean Sea (in ships of a questionable eighth century design www.archaeology.org/onlinereviews/troy) for vengeance upon Priam’s Kingdom‚ with the assistance of Achilles. Fighting
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In Homer’s The Iliad‚ readers are subjected to an epic that includes gods and goddesses that are intertwined into human society. These supreme beings are at most times less likely to display divine emotional characteristics‚ and instead display an extremely humane range of emotion. This can be seen in many different ways throughout the epic through the many squabbles‚ and humane emotional reactions that pop up from time to time as the actions of the gods begin to mirror the actions of the mortals
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through Yeats’ use of violence and godly image through the swan and the loss of innocence through Leda. ’Leda and the Swan’ is based off Greek mythology when Zeus disguises himself as a swan and rapes Leda‚ resulting in the birth of two demi-gods‚ Helen and Pollux and two mortal children‚ Castor and Clytemnestra. The swan also metaphorically represents the power of Britain while Leda represents the vulnerability of Ireland. Throughout the entire poem Yeats conveys this image of godly power and imagery
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Passion Gone too Far in Medea Passion is any powerful or compelling emotion or feeling and is not limited to just feelings of love‚ but also‚ feelings of hate (“Passion” def.1). In Euripides’s‚ Medea‚ there is a suggestion that revenge may‚ sometimes‚ be justified (Hopman 155). However‚ when revenge leads to loss of life‚ others would argue that passion has gone too far (Robertson XVI - XVII). In Euripides’s play‚ Medea‚ “a woman betrayed by Jason -- her husband of 10 years‚ a man she had murdered
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