her. Then the classic (with a few twists) myth of the Trojan War is told. But everyone seems to blame Helen or Paris when there are a lot of other characters to receive part of the blame. For instance: the gods‚ Agamemnon‚ Menelaus‚ and even Odysseus. The reason why most blame Helen and Paris is that Helen isn’t just any Greek woman; she is the most beautiful and desirable woman alive. When Helen ran away with Paris to Troy she abandoned her country and her people. All of Greece was forced to go
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dirty work. Clytemnestra is killed by her own son‚ Orestes‚ some years later. Menelaus goes home with Helen‚ apparently having won. But in the Odyssey‚ he is a shadow of his former self‚ is ridiculed by his subjects‚ and despised by Helen. No respect. Troy has been sacked and burned. King Priam‚ who has lost both his sons in the war‚ is killed in the mayhem. The Trojans are mostly slaughtered. Helen has lost her lover‚ Paris‚ and is now forced to live with the man she hates .Achilles‚ Paris and Hector
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be fatal and life threatening. However‚ these characters are often forced by laws‚ cultures‚ morals and gender that stop them from being as free as they would like to be. The main characters that try to express this free-will are Achilles‚ Paris‚ Helen and Hector. They all illustrate this dilemma but it is deciding so that Homer lets the reader decide what is truly right. Achilles is the hero of the Trojan War and a great warrior of Greece. He his faced with many choices that shape who he is.
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Thesis Statement: Women play a major role in the Iliad. Examining the impact of female characters in an epic dominated by war and the men who fought it. Major female characters include Helen‚ Briseis‚ Athena‚ Aphrodite‚ Hera ‚ Thetis and Chrysies. The Iliad is first and foremost an epic poem about a war waged by men. Even though there are no female warriors ‚ apart from the goddesses‚ women play a major role in defining the course of it. The roots of the war can be traced back to the beauty
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portraying Castor as a skilled horse trainer and Pollux as an expert boxer. Inseparable‚ the brothers always acted together. In one of the earliest myths about the twins‚ Castor and Pollux rescued their sister Helen after she had been kidnapped by Theseus (pronounced THEE-see-uhs)‚ king of Attica. Helen would later gain fame as the queen whose abduction by Paris‚ a Trojan prince‚ launched the Trojan War. The twins also accompanied Jason and the Argonauts on their voyage in search of the Golden Fleece. During
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name was Helen‚ gone. The king soon QAlearned that she was kidnapped by Paris‚ Prince of Troy. 2After the shock‚ Menelaus promised to get back Helen‚ so he called all the kings of Greece. After recruiting the kings‚ they sailed with Menelaus to Troy. As the kings SVpursued the city‚ they LYdisappointedly discovered that it was surrounded by a great wall. 6Of course‚ Menelaus was unhappy. The kings and soldiers camped along the beach and plotted. The Greeks knew that in order to get Helen back‚ they
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than what one person loves. To prove her theory‚ she brings forward the decision of the beautiful Helen of Troy‚ one of the most contradictory feminine characters‚ reinterpreting historical facts‚ at least in the way they had been presented in the Iliad. It is‚ as if‚ Sappho would say that the way Helen’s experience generated discussions‚ in the same way any other person is free to make a choice. Helen‚ in Sappho’s view followed her desire against everybody and everything and when she had to make a
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true insight to Homer’s literary and storytelling genius. The three major turning points in the iliad are when Helen is stolen by the trojan prince paris; when Achilles’ friend Patroclus is killed by Hector; and when Achilles kills hector to avenge Patroclus´ death. The first major event is when Helen is stolen by Paris of Troy. Homer stated ¨ Trojan prince paris whose abduction of Helen caused the war‚ challenges an Achaean
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Menelaus Menelaus was a king of Mycenaean (pre-Dorian) Sparta‚ the husband of Helen of Troy‚ and a central figure in the Trojan War. He was the son of Atreus and Aerope‚ brother of Agamemnon‚ king of Mycenae and‚ according to the Iliad‚ leader of the Spartan contingent of the Greek army during the War. Prominent in both the Iliad and Odyssey‚ Menelaus was also popular in Greek vase painting and Greek tragedy; the latter more as a hero of the Trojan War than as a member of the doomed House of Atreus
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supposed to go to the fairest of them all: Hera‚ Athena‚ or Aphrodite Paris is the judge Aphrodite offers him the love of the most beautiful women alive: Helen Helen is already married to Menelaus (King of Sparta) Paris seduces Helen and takes her with him. Prium (Paris’ father) takes Paris in to protect him All of the suitors swore to protect Helen and Menelaus so they go to war Agamemnon is married to Helen’s half-sister The Iliad asks: what is civilization? For 9 years‚ the Greeks had been
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