adaption of the poem written by Homer‚ also known as the Iliad. The screenplay was written by David Benioff and stars Brad Pitt‚ Eric Bana‚ Orlando Bloom‚ Brian Cox‚ Diane Kruger‚ and Rose Byrne. It is a brilliant story of love and war produced in 2004. My reason for choosing this film is because of the controversy over what is myth and what is fact regarding the fall of Troy. I find the movie so majestic yet the timeframe of the Iliad was around 1250 B.C. when it doesn’t seem plausible that everything
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Endurance Of The Human Spirit The Iliad and the movie Precious‚ based on the novel Push by Saphire‚ both share a common theme where the main characters depict an uncommon endurance of the human spirit in the face of adversity. Although in The Iliad‚ war is horrible and bloody‚ the spirit of Achilles is never broken by this adversity because‚ like Precious‚ who suffers physical‚ mental‚ and sexual abuse at the hands of her parents‚ their human spirit is the driving force behind their desire to overcome
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THE BRONZE AGE The Bronze Age began in 2800 and lasted till 1050BC. This was almost 2000 years ago. This time period started to replace the use of stone and iron with bronze. The development of trading began with the Aegean and Mediterranean regions. Crete was responsible for major development during the Bronze Age. Their society was based on structures of extravagant places. The Minoans for the next 500 years had had the power in the Aegean but by 1450BC they were over run by the Mycenaean’s
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May 6‚ 1902 Dear Simon‚ My beloved Patroclus‚ I am writing to you in the hope that I can inspire in you a sentimentality towards my person‚ such as it is‚ and in the knowledge that the longer I remain here‚ the more I am evolving into a person I do not recognize‚ but I would like you to know me‚ the me that I am becoming‚ very much.‚ Amor et melle et felle est fecundissimus‚ remember? Well here is your venom. At 1:30 the general gave me a memorandum with regards to sending out a Tennessee battalion
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Patroklus takes Achilles’ armour and wears it into battle without his consent in fighting in it. He wanted to raise the spirits of the troops to get them fighting again since Achilles still wasn’t fighting due to the loss of Briseis. This resulted in the event of Patroklus being killed by Hektor in both sources because Hektor believed that he would be killing Achilles. This is a key similarity in both sources because‚ due to the loss of someone dear to him‚ Achilles returns to war with a mind of
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keeping their city safe. Many of the greeks consider him as "godlike achilles". For example‚ in The Iliad‚ King Priam calls him godlike for the last time‚ when he begs Achilles for his sons body back. He says "remember your own father‚ godlike Achilles-as old as i am‚ past the threshold of deadly old age!" (604). Although his mother was Thetis goddess of the sea‚ Achilles was not immortal. In the Iliad‚ Achilles had gone through hubris‚ by acting like a god‚ and putting himself above his people. He
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Top of Form Poetry Analysis:W.H.Auden’s “The Shield of Achilles” 01. Analysis of W.H.Auden’s “The Shield of Achilles” .“The Shield of Achilles” belongs to W.H.Auden’s collection The Shield of Achilles published in 1955The classical myth of Achilles is employed by Auden to exemplify the contrast between the valiant past and unheroic present. The myth of the past is juxtaposed with the reality of the present. The classical world is set against modernity. Monroe.K.Spears asserts that the shield
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Trojan War: Background Introduction: The Trojan War‚ which is dated from 1194-1184 B.C‚ is one of the most famous wars in the history of the world. The tactics used and the heroes involved in the Trojan War are probably the two biggest reasons why the war will always be remembered and studied. Achilles is at the center of the heroes that fought in the war‚ with the Trojan Horse being the controversial war tactic. However‚ the following few paragraphs will give some background information on
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in a relief carved by Archelaos of Priene‚ The Apotheosis of Homer (150? BC‚ British Museum‚ London). The relief was dedicated to the Muses or to Homer and shows the poet along with figures representing the World‚ Time‚ Homer’s great epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey‚ and other literary images and ideas. But perhaps the most distinctive Hellenistic style is one sometimes called Baroque. Hellenistic Baroque‚ like the Baroque style of 17th-century Europe‚ is defined by its melodramatic‚ exaggerated
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grow. Hades never allowed any of his many subjects to leave. He is also the god of wealth because of the metals mined from underground. Hades is “unpitying and terrible‚ but not capricious.” Hades lies right beneath the earth in the Iliad. In the Odyssey though‚ Hades can be found by boat at the western edge of the world “beyond the ocean”. Odysseus‚ the epic hero‚ visited the land of the dead or Hades in search of knowledge. In the odyssey‚ Hades tells Odysseus that he would rather
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