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    Song Of Achilles

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    The Song of Achilles is a novel by Madeline Miller. This novel is about two men‚ Achilles‚ and Patroclus. They first meet when Patroclus gets exiled from his kingdom because he accidentally killed another boy. Achilles’ father takes Patroclus in and trains him with the rest of the boys that take refuge in Achilles’s kingdom. The two boys grow up with each other which in turns makes them have many adventures together. First‚ they both go to Chiron‚ a centaur that trains heroes like Hercules. Then

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    to stories and poems throughout history. Each author develops his hero through a unique writing style‚ combining conscious use of detail‚ diction‚ tone and other narrative techniques to outline a hero’s personality. Homer‚ in his epic poem The Iliad‚ develops two classic heroes who are distinctly different at first glance‚ but upon closer inspection are very similar in terms of their basic characteristics. Hector and Achilles both are courageous soldiers‚ relatively honorable men‚ and respected leaders

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    the book‚ Homer asks the muse to give him inspiration to sing of the anger of Achilles‚ son of Peleus. Apollo sent a plague to the achaeans because Agamemnon would not return Chryses’ daughter‚ Chryseis‚ despite his offering to pay a large ransom for her return. Calchas thinks that the powers that be will be angered by what he was about to say‚ so he asks Achilles to promise to protect him from the forces of the angered king. The argument between Agamemnon and achilles that causes Achilles to quit

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    About Achilles: In Homer’s ‘The Iliad’ Achilles was a hero and warrior who fought for Agamemnon’s army in the trojan war. He was the son of another greek hero‚ Peleus and the nereid‚ Thetis. In Homer’s Ancient Greek society they believed that no one could escape their fate‚ the only exception of this is that Achilles is given a choice of two fates ‚ to live a long but dull life or a life filled with kleos (glory) and timé (honour)‚ but a brief life. Achille’s parents were aware of this‚ therefore

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    Homer and Sappho

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    that is what they held in valuable ideals at the time. This allows to tie the poem to the time period in which Sappho lived and of course found inspirations for her own writing. For example‚ this poem gives you a moment to think about the army; the cavalry‚ the foot soldiers‚ and even the fleet. To think of these items as beautiful‚ idealistic. This‚ of course‚ is a very constant theme in a lot of art work from the Greek culture. Let’s take a look at the carving on

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    Hector and Achilles

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    Hector and Achilles: protagonist and antagonist “The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reach us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago‚ but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.” -Kahlil Gibran Greek literature and mythology present two epic warriors in the Iliad: Hector and Achilles. The modern Greeks favored both heroes during their ancient time period. In Greek‚ Héktōr literally means “to hold” or “to have‚” which symbolizes his character as

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    Achilles Tendon

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    Achilles Tendon The Achilles tendon is a tough band of threadlike tissue that connects the calf muscles to the heel bone. The Achilles tendon is also called the calcaneal tendon. The calf muscles unite into one band of tissue‚ which becomes the Achilles tendon at the low end of the calf. The Achilles tendon then inserts into the heel bone. Small sacs of fluid called bursa cushion the Achilles tendon at the heel.  The Achilles tendon is the largest and strongest tendon in the body. When the calf

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    literary critic has taken to tearing apart this work of Homer in order to make it fit whatever theory they want to prove. I will use my limited knowledge as a student to show that Achilles in not the heartless warrior that most readers take his as‚ but a warrior that fights for noble causes with honor and pride‚ with maybe a few bad calls in the heat of battle. In our discussions

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    Achilles Vs Agamemnon

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    the epic poem The Iliad by Homer there are numerous allegories that revolve around the actions and consequences that men take in hopes to gain honour and glory. Two primary characters that do this are Achilles the greatest warrior of the ancient world‚ and Agamemnon the king of Mycenae. In The Iliad Achilles and Agamemnon are both fuelled by spite and blinded by stubbornness which causes them to suffer the consequences of their own actions. The quarrel between Achilles and Agamemnon is sparked in

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    The Choice of Achilles

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    Clas 121 Day 2 In a context relevant to you‚ would you make the choice Achilles made? Achilles had a difficult choice that he had to make when faced with living a long but simple life or a short but glorified one. I would not make the same choice that Achilles made of returning home and living a long‚ but ordinary life‚ instead of a short‚ but a celebrated one if he had stayed and fought. The reason for this is because I’d rather have my life mean something than being unimportant. One hasn’t lived

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