Humanities 101 Midterm Review Weeks 1 and 2 Mesopotamia: Sumerians‚ Akkadian‚ Babylonian‚ Assyrian Euphrates River Tigris River Fertile Crescent Uruk Cuneiform: wedge or nail shape marks pressed into wet clay –used for over 3000 years Sumerians 3500-2350 Located in lower Mesopotamia Between the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers Part of the Fertile Crescent Invented writing and beer (Kassi) Purpose? Records of goods and services 2700 BCE: rough date assigned the historical Gilgsmesh‚ King
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TROY Film Analysis by: Dianne Lim Federis Wolfgang Peterson tackles the job of bringing the epic of Homer’s The Iliad to the big screen in his film Troy. Iliad being a lengthy text‚ it is impossible to include every detail in a movie. Therefore‚ there are obvious deviations from the book such as the length of the Trojan War‚ and the absence of celestial participation in the war. There is also an absence of mortal female characters such as Chryseis‚ Hecuba‚ and Cassandra in the movie. In contrast
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task of producing work that entails the endeavours of Priam and his challenge to make peace with Achilles who is also still attempting to make peace with the loss of Patroclus. The wrath of Achilles is more predominant in Petersen’s work‚ however the Iliad shows Achilles being ‘inhuman’ and “barbaric”. This can depict Achilles as more of a “brute” and warrior as compared to a
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close tie to the Iliad and Greek gods and heroes. This can be seen when visiting the castles gardens. The gardens have statues and temples dedicated to Apollo‚ Zeus‚ sphinxes‚ and Athena. The placement of the statues in a garden in Germany shows the effect and values of the Greek people transpiring through time. The garden was created as a place to go and relax and reflect and the statues and temples serve to remind visitors to the garden of the values they stand for. The Iliad was a very influential
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HERO OR ZERO? In the Iliad‚ along with the glorification of war‚ there is a fixation on heroes. Heroes are warriors who are presented above the average foot soldier for a myriad of reasons. They not only act as leaders in battle‚ but as people to rally around. In the poem there are numerous heroes each with their own distinctive quality and purpose. Heroes all have an important thing in common; as they go‚ so go their soldiers. The main heroes of the epic make their claim to fame in different
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individuals in classics‚ such as the Iliad‚ possess similar qualities that are the criterion of ancient Greek heroes. Characteristics‚ like honor‚ loyalty‚ an individual’s favoring by the gods‚ accomplishments in battle‚ and fatal flaws are essential to each hero. Therefore‚ when identifying an individual in one of Homer’s epics as a hero‚ it is crucial that he possesses these traits. Patroclus is a character that conspicuously displays these traits. Therefore‚ within the Iliad‚ the term “hero” is best characterized
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Achilles VS Hector In the Iliad‚ several of the male characters show heroic characteristics‚ according to the heroic warrior code of ancient Greece. They try to win glory in battle‚ yet are often characterized as having a clearly human side. They each have sure strengths and weaknesses‚ which are evident at many times throughout the conflicts described within the Iliad. Prime examples of such characters are Achilles and Hector. These two characters have obvious variations in their approaches to
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Anger is significant in the Iliad because most of the central events that take place in it are fueled by anger. The first time anger becomes important to the Iliad is Achilles’ anger at Agamemnon and his selfish decisions. Achilles is angry because Agamemnon brought the wrath of Apollo down upon the entire Greek force. Apollo is angry at Agamemnon because he rudely refused to return his war prize‚ Chryseis‚ to her father Chryses‚ who is a priest of Apollo‚ and Chryses prays to Apollo that he would
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forces that shape human destinyThe Iliad may be seen as an account of the circumstances that irrevocably alter the life of one man: Achilles‚ greatest of warriors. Through the course of the poem‚ Achilles goes through many ordeals that change his character immensely. From the initial callousness and stubborn temper of Achilles to the eventual humanization ’ of Achilles in his interaction with the grieving father of Hector‚ whom Achilles himself slew‚ The Iliad can be seen to chronicle the maturation
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famous Homeric epic ‘Iliad’‚ as the name suggests. Achilles as we know was the greatest hero of the Trojan War and his shield as mentioned here has its reference in the book eighteen of the Iliad. There Thetis‚ the sea goddess and Achilles’ mother requests Hephaestus the divine blacksmith to make a shield for Achilles whose armor has been taken away by the Trojan hero Hector when he killed Patroclus to whom Achilles had lent it. Auden here has narrated the episode of the Iliad where this shield is
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