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    Paris was having an affair with his beautiful wife Helen. The next morning‚ he finds out that the Trojans had taken Helen with them‚ and enraged turns to his brother Agamemnon‚ king of Mycenae‚ who soon united a vast army to take Helen‚ back from the Trojans‚ supposedly to defend his brother¡¯s honor. This resulted benefiting Agamemnon‚ whose honor was corrupted by his overwhelming greed. He saw the situation as a perfect cover-up to open war against Troy and take over the greatest city in the world

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    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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    Ancient Cultures Ancient Europe—Part I Greece—Chapter 4; some on Powerpoint Lecture Bronze Age Civilizations of the Aegean (ca. 3000-1200 B.C.E.) 77-79 1. Greek city-states first emerged on islands and peninsulas a. in the Aegean Sea. b. along the coast of Asia Minor. c. in southern Italy and Sicily. d. All of these areas. 2. One link between early Bronze Age cultures and later Greek cultures is the a. profound respect for goddesses. b. continuity of written records. c. influence of volcanic

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    Iliad (Book I) The Iliad concerns itself with the rage of Achilles and how it begins to break down the Achaean army‚ and how the tensions were change towards the Trojans. The Trojan War had been going on for about ten years before Achilles and Agamemnon entered the quarrel. The nonexistence of Achilles from the battle only lasted a couple of days and the epic ended shortly afterwards. The way I interpreted the poem it did not describe the origin or the end of the war that frames Achilles wrath.

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    starts all the way from why the Trojan-Greeks conflict started up to the death of Achilles and the fall of Troy. While on the other hand‚ the book’ onset is narrowed down to the ninth year of the Trojan war wherein the conflict between Achilles and Agamemnon is intensified. Aside from this the book ends the epic in the change of Achilles character. From the difference of the said coverage‚ it can be derived that the focus of the book is on the wrath of Achilles being resolved‚ while the film is the settlement

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    not be dared” (Agamemnon 4003-408). Thousands of men died while she sat in her castle. It goes to show how powerful a woman’s beauty can be. We then have Clytemnestra‚ wife of Agamemnon and queen of Argos. Clytemnestra was described as “a woman with a man’s heart” (Agamemnon 11); she was depicted as a very brutal and treacherous woman but she was also very intelligent. Clytemnestra knew how intelligent she was and even proved it to the Argive elders‚ in line 351 of the play Agamemnon the y tell her

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    values that affected his decision to eschew from battle. He was ordered to refrain from a duel with Agamemnon by Hera and Athena‚ he chose to fulfill a prophecy of a long life‚ and he wanted restoration of the honor and glory for which he had worked so hard to receive.

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    The Odyssey Books 1-4: Notes due Friday 1/10 (3/5) and Monday 1/13 (2/4) An Uncertain Identity Prince Telemachus is the first human character whom the reader meets. He is the son of the long-missing Greek warrior Odysseus‚ King of Ithaca. Telemachus is too young‚ too untested‚ too unsure to have a firmly established sense of identity. Having grown up fatherless in a household full of insolent men who are besieging his mother and consuming his inheritance‚ he feels totally powerless. The goddess

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    and birds. Birth and Early Life. Some myths say that Helen’s mother was Leda‚ the wife of King Tyndareus of Sparta*. Others name Nemesis‚ the goddess of revenge‚ as her mother. Helen had a sister Clytemnestra‚ who later became the wife of King Agamemnon* of Mycenae‚ and twin brothers Castor and Pollux‚ known as the Dioscuri. Stories claiming Leda as Helen’s mother tell how Zeus disguised himself as a swan and raped the Spartan queen. Leda then produced two eggs. From one came Helen and her brother

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    Illiad

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    poem in dactylic hexameters‚ traditionally attributed to Homer. Set during the Trojan War‚ the ten-year siege of the city of Troy (Ilium) by a coalition of Greek states‚ it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles. Although the story covers only a few weeks in the final year of the war‚ the Iliad mentions or alludes to many of the Greek legends about the siege‚ the earlier events‚ such as the gathering of warriors for the siege‚ the

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