Analyse the effectiveness of the tactics used by both sides in the Trojan War. ____________________________________________________________ ___ The Trojan war was a ten year siege on the city of the city of Troy at the hands of the Greek forces led by a psychopathic king‚ Agamemnon. This conflict‚ which took place about 1200 B.C has become one of the most well known Greek mythology events in history. In the 13th century B.C
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Board) Patroclus seems to be one of the only people Achilles respects out of the entire Achaean army. Achilles comes off cold and distant to all the other soldiers‚ but when he is alone with Patroclus he becomes more cheerful and understanding. (Homer) Patroclus knows he is inferior to Achilles and is loyal in his role as a sidekick. This is shown when Patroclus stays loyal to Achilles by following him in his act of refusal to fight for Agamenon against the Trojans. Patroclus’s purpose is to
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In the epic poem “The Odyssey” by Homer‚ Odysseus journeys back to his home‚ Ithaca‚ and carries out his punishment against the suitors that lie in his residence. He brutally kills them through violent and explicit methods. Odysseus is completely justified in his revenge against the suitors. Throughout the poem‚ Homer develops the concepts/ themes of honor and hospitality and how it plays a major role in Greek society. The suitors violate these concepts multiple times throughout the poem‚ giving
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think of how everyone else is going to escape‚ and decides to sharpen a log‚ into a weapon‚ to injure the cyclopes. “I hewed again to make a stake with a pointed end.... whose hand could bare to thrust and grind that spike into the Cyclopes eyes...” Homer (155). This shows his bravery because why would you try to fight something that can easily take you and your crew all down. He knows that if this plan doesn’t work they are all doomed so his is very brave to even try this. Not many humans I know are
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of adversity and despair is to possess the Greek ideal of arête. This is a notion of excellence ultimately connected with the fulfillment of purpose. In Homers epic‚ The Iliad‚ Achilles embodies the arête trait very well. Achilles is referred to as strong‚ swift and god like‚ he is the great runner and most powerful warrior of the Achaeans. Homer introduces his subject with the first word‚ in the first sentence‚ “Rage—Goddess‚ sing the rage of Peleus’ son Achilles‚ murderous‚ doomed‚ that cost the
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Cited: Homer. The Iliad. The Essestial Homer. Ed. Stanley Lombardo. Brooklyn‚ Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company‚ 200. 1-240
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compelled him— . . . To undergo so many perilous days And enter on so many trials. Can anger Black as this prey on the minds of heaven? (I.1–19) With these opening lines of the Aeneid‚ Virgil enters the epic tradition in the shadow of Homer‚ author of the Iliad‚ an epic of the Trojan War‚ and theOdyssey‚ an epic of the Greek hero Ulysses’ wanderings homeward from Troy. By naming his subjects as “warfare and a man‚” Virgil establishes
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Mónica Callava February 9‚ 2010 Mrs. Pedroso Period 2 The Odyssey vs. Siren Song Some people have one inanimate object in their lives that they find so enticing that they are incapable of withstanding. One object that lures them into a deep trap not giving them any chance to resist. In Margaret Atwood’s “Siren Song” as well as Homer’s The Odyssey the one inanimate object all men cannot seem to resist is a Siren calling them in. In “Siren Song” we see a portrayal of this irresistible lure by
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Major Differences between the Homer’s Iliad and the film Troy. It is very apparent that the film Troy‚ directed by Wolfgang Peterson‚ has been heavily influenced by the epic poem‚ the Iliad‚ a work commonly credited to the Ancient Greek poet Homer. Both the film and the poem have the same overall plots‚ such as the siege of Troy by the Greeks‚ the feud between the warrior Achilles and the king Agamemnon‚ and these events being triggered due to the Trojan prince Paris “stealing” Helen of Sparta
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Enraged at this remark‚ Antinoös throws a footstool at the beggar and clips Odysseus on the shoulder. “Odysseus the Beggar stood firm as a rock and the blow did not even stagger him‚ but he shook his head in silence as he brooded on his revenge” (Homer 326). After Odysseus first acts upon his egoistic instincts by insulting Antinoos for not providing him with food‚ Odysseus learns to humble himself and act not with what he feels but with what is appropriate at the moment. Although this trait
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