speaker. In many of the texts‚ there is more to the pre-war story of Odysseus then mentioned in TROY. One commonly held belief is that Odysseus was one of the original suitors of Helen. He was the one that made all of her suitors swear to defend her marriage rights. However‚ when Menelaus called on the suitors to bring Helen back from Troy‚ Odysseus was reluctant to make good on his oath. In the sources Odysseus was one of the key Greeks involved in the Trojan War. He was‚ according to one text‚ to
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Jo is the daughter of Helen‚ who happens to be a frequent drinker and indecent mother to her child. In the opening scene Helen and Jo move into a house that is not only indecent to live inside but‚ also happens to be right next to a slaughter house. Jo and Helen express a very inter-dependent relationship amongst one another. While talking Helen notices that Jo has pictures that are quite artistic for a child her age‚ it comes in Peter who happens to be a past lover of Helens. After conversation
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However‚ what we see essential in the fall of Troy and the whole war is the strict interference of the gods. From the beginning‚ even though it is not part of the Aeneid‚ we see the interference of the gods as Helen falls in love with the handsome Paris with the help of Aphrodite. Even though Helen is married to one of the most powerful king of Greece she cannot help but fall in love with Paris. Later on we see another episode of the interference of the gods when Laocoon‚ a Trojan priest‚ threw a spear
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Acquisitiveness of the Trojan War In almost all instances of war the cause has been related to greed‚ or the gaining of land and possessions. Greed is presented in the very first book of Homer’s “The Iliad.” It isn’t displayed by the cowards‚ but the “heroes” of the war such as Agamemnon‚ Achilles‚ and Pandarus. The entire cause of the Trojan War is the result of the greedy and cowardly behavior of Paris. There are many factors that had sparked the war‚ including the interference of the gods; however
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A myth is a story that was told in an ancient culture to explain a practice‚ belief‚ or natural occurrence. There are hundreds of myth but the one that is going to be focused on is the myth of the Judgement of Paris or The Golden Apple of Discord. This myth is essentially said to be the start of the Trojan war. One man’s greed and selfishness was the initial cause of a nine to ten year war. A wedding for Thetis and her husband‚ Peleus was going on in Olympus. Every god was invited but Eris. She was
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her. Then the classic (with a few twists) myth of the Trojan War is told. But everyone seems to blame Helen or Paris when there are a lot of other characters to receive part of the blame. For instance: the gods‚ Agamemnon‚ Menelaus‚ and even Odysseus. The reason why most blame Helen and Paris is that Helen isn’t just any Greek woman; she is the most beautiful and desirable woman alive. When Helen ran away with Paris to Troy she abandoned her country and her people. All of Greece was forced to go
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dirty work. Clytemnestra is killed by her own son‚ Orestes‚ some years later. Menelaus goes home with Helen‚ apparently having won. But in the Odyssey‚ he is a shadow of his former self‚ is ridiculed by his subjects‚ and despised by Helen. No respect. Troy has been sacked and burned. King Priam‚ who has lost both his sons in the war‚ is killed in the mayhem. The Trojans are mostly slaughtered. Helen has lost her lover‚ Paris‚ and is now forced to live with the man she hates .Achilles‚ Paris and Hector
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be fatal and life threatening. However‚ these characters are often forced by laws‚ cultures‚ morals and gender that stop them from being as free as they would like to be. The main characters that try to express this free-will are Achilles‚ Paris‚ Helen and Hector. They all illustrate this dilemma but it is deciding so that Homer lets the reader decide what is truly right. Achilles is the hero of the Trojan War and a great warrior of Greece. He his faced with many choices that shape who he is.
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portraying Castor as a skilled horse trainer and Pollux as an expert boxer. Inseparable‚ the brothers always acted together. In one of the earliest myths about the twins‚ Castor and Pollux rescued their sister Helen after she had been kidnapped by Theseus (pronounced THEE-see-uhs)‚ king of Attica. Helen would later gain fame as the queen whose abduction by Paris‚ a Trojan prince‚ launched the Trojan War. The twins also accompanied Jason and the Argonauts on their voyage in search of the Golden Fleece. During
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name was Helen‚ gone. The king soon QAlearned that she was kidnapped by Paris‚ Prince of Troy. 2After the shock‚ Menelaus promised to get back Helen‚ so he called all the kings of Greece. After recruiting the kings‚ they sailed with Menelaus to Troy. As the kings SVpursued the city‚ they LYdisappointedly discovered that it was surrounded by a great wall. 6Of course‚ Menelaus was unhappy. The kings and soldiers camped along the beach and plotted. The Greeks knew that in order to get Helen back‚ they
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