...Hero/God/Mortal: Homer's Iliad Assignment In Homer's Iliad, heroism is portrayed throughout the story on both sides of the battlefield of Troy. On the Greek side, heroes are portrayed as lethal warriors whose names will live on for the rest of eternity. Kleos, a Greek word meaning glory, is what a Greek warrior will earn if he has proved himself on the battlefield. Kleos is usually obtained without nostos, or homecoming, meaning a warrior has sacrificed his life in order for his name to be remembered forever. On the side of the Trojans, heroes are portrayed through loyalty to their city and family. The greatest Trojan warrior of all, Hector, states that he is obligated to honor his father as well as his city by standing up against the Greeks. Even though Hector has a wife and a new-born son, and knows that he will most likely die in combat, he realizes he must go and battle Achilles and the Greeks in order to honor oikos, the Greek term meaning family, and polis, the Greek word meaning city. On the side of the Greeks, Achilles is trying to achieve the ultimate goal of kleos, throughout the process he is disrespectful to Agamemnon, leader of the Greek army, as well as the rest of Greeks he is fighting with. Achilles is a very stubborn warrior and must have everything go his way. On the side of the Trojans, Hector is making his best effort to protect his city and would rather stay back and be with his family. Hector is a humble man and treats his army like family...
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...The Iliad, Its Characters and the Code of Honor Within the ancient text of The Iliad, heroes define and mold their character through decisions based on a set of principles, which are referred to as the “Code of Honor.” The heroic code which Homer presents to the reader is an underlying cause for many of the events which occur, but many of the characters differ on their perceptions and the gravity of the code. Achilles actions often find him going “against the grain” of the code of honor. His actions lie in stark contrast with those of Hector, a true hero and my hero, who strives to follow and live the code of honor, despite its consequences. Hector, the greatest of the Trojan warriors, begins the poem as the model of a Homeric hero and living the code of honor. His dedication and strict belief in the code of honor is illustrated many times throughout the course of The Iliad. An instance in which we see Hector’s strict belief in the code of honor takes place during his return home in the sixth book. Hector returns to Troy in order to have the queen and the other women make a sacrifice to Athena, hoping she will assist the Trojans in the war. After arranging this act he visits Paris, with the intention of convincing him to fight. Visibly upset, Hector scolds Paris, telling him, “The people are dying around the city and around the steep wall as they fight hard; it is for you that this war with its clamor has flared up about our city. You yourself would fight with another whom...
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...The Illiad Book 1 People to Remember: * Chryses – Priest to Apollo * Chryseis – Chryses Daughter * Agamemnon – Leader of Greek Forces * Apollo (Sminthesus) – God of Mice * Achilles – Warrior of Greeks * Chalcas – Camp Prophet * Briseis – Daughter of Achilles * Athena – Wife of Achilles, Goddess of Warriors * Nestor – From City of Pylos * Thetis – Achilles’ Mother, Sea God, Sea Nymph * Zeus * Hera – Wife of Zeus * Hephaestus – Son of Hera and Zeus, Sun God * Aphrodite – Sex Goddess of flower, candy * Aeneas – Hero of Troy * Ares – War God Summary: 1. The story is the Anger of Achilles and how it brings consequences to the Greeks. 2. Agamemnon abducts Chryseis. Chryses prays to Apollo. Apollo sends plague to Greeks. Achilles calls a meeting. 3. Chalcas tells everyone what is going on so everyone tells Agamemnon to give back Chryseis but he says okay if I do I get to choose whomever I want and he chooses Briseis. 4. Achilles is angered and tries to fight Agamemnon but his wife stops him from killing him because she knows he will regret it. 5. Nestor tells everyone to calm down. Thetis goes to Zeus for help. Zeus tries to sneak behind his wife but gets caught and Hephaestus says no fighting. Says what the Illiad is about. Not about Trojan War, talks about an event that happens in the 9th year of the war. The anger of Achilles. Death because of anger. Achilles vs. Agamemnon...
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...The story of the Odyssey starts with Odysseus, a Greek war hero in the Battle of Troy. He is trying to make his way back to his home in Ithaca. His wife, Penelope, is waiting for him to return home from war. She does not know if her husband is still alive, but still remains faithful to him. Even with all of the suitors that have bombarded Odysseus’ home trying to take his place, Penelope still remains loyal to her husband. Their son, Prince Telemachus, is still at the home with all of the suitors. He desperately wants to remove them from the home, but does not have the will power or fighting experience to take down all of the men. Many men want to take over the palace, especially Antinous. He plans to kill Telemachus and control the palace. Odysseus meanwhile is alive on the island of Ogygia. He is bound here under the control of Calypso. The Greek goddess, Athena, wants to help Odysseus out. She goes to his son Telemachus disguised as Laertes. She persuades him to approach the suitors in a meeting, and also prepares him to journey to Pylos and Sparta. Nestor and Menelaus tell him that his dad is still alive but stuck on Calypso’s Island. Zeus sends Hermes to save Odysseus from the island. Hermes talks Calypso into letting Odysseus build a ship and leave. While sailing, Poseidon sends a storm to stop him from getting home. Athena saves him once again and lands on Scheria. He spends the night recalling all the adventures he had experienced on his trip. After he tells his...
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...ROLE OF WOMEN IN ILLIAD WHY I CHOSE THIS TOPIC? Throughout history, women have held many different roles in society.Men have traditionally been viewed as superior since the beginning of time.Homer's Iliad is an excellent example of the suppressive role of women at this time.Women were treated merely as property and were used for producing material within the household. Paralyzed by their unfortunate circumstances, they were taken and given as if they were material belongings. In Homer's Iliad, we conceive how women are introduced as suppliants to the masculine heroines.They are depicted as being inferior to men both physically and intellectually.Throughout the Iliad, women play a modest but important role that embodies their relative significance and the impact they have on the affairs that take place. INTRODUCTION Different types of women are represented in the epic poem The Iliad: strong-willed andshrewd women, damsel-in-distress types, wicked and vengeful women, or even women who cause the downfall of the protagonist male hero. Moreover, there are also women depicted as possessions (war prizes) or women who have little or no control over her destiny. The epic poem, generally regarded as “a male-dominated world” focuses centrally on the rage between men but it also happen that most of the time this rage is affected, initiated, and inspired by a woman. HELEN OF TROY The most celebrated woman figure in the poem is probably Helen of Troy. Helen attracted men from...
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...“ How to Control Emotions ” This would give you guide on how to control your emotions towards your better half, friend, officemate and all of the people around you. The rules of practicing “ UGALING LANGIT, UGALING KAAYA-AYA ”. 1. Ang maunang magalit ang may karapatang magalit, pag naunahan ka ng galit nya tumahimik ka nalang muna. 2. Walang taong nag-aaway mag-isa, Pag hindi kayo sumagot o pumatol titigil din daw ang taong nakikipagaway sa inyo. 3. Ang taong galit “ BINGI ”, If someone is angry wala raw pinakikinggan so don’t try to explain and fight. Hindi ka nya iintindihin dahil wala siyang naririnig kundi ang sarili nya. 4. Ang taong galit “ ABNOY “, ayon sa pastor biblical daw ito, because the lord said when he crucified.. “Father patawarin mo sila dahil hindi nila alam ang kanilang ginagawa”. Modern term for this kind of people are abnoy. So you better not get angry para wag ka matawag na abnoy. You should know and realized that the person who make your day bad are jewel, because you need them for you to mature. Hanggat andyan daw sila at kinaiinisan mo ibig sabihin immature ka pa. God will not take away those people. It’s for you to take away your bad feelings towards them. You’ll know na mature ka na pag dumating na yung time na hindi ka na naiinis sa mga taong ito. Because you have learned to accept them and to have patience with them. 5. Finally the best part of this is to tell yourself na because of this person, I will grow mature, and that dahil sa contribution nya...
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...Foram Patel Writing Exercise 1 In the Greek epic, The Iliad, Homer shows a different side of love that exists between Andromache and Hector different from the erotic love, which exists between the many other characters in the epic, including Paris and Helen. In the Iliad, many instances of love are shown between multiple characters and in the majority of these encounters, love is shown as a merely a sort of erotic contract between a man and a woman; however, when Homer shows his readers the dialogue between Andromache and Hector, the true nature of love is revealed. In fact, Andromache speaks against Hector going out in the war, for the loss of him, to her, is not as great as him gaining honor and glory in the battle. To provide context, Hector is the only one left for Andromache in this world due to the bereavement Achilles has brought on her by killing her father, her brothers and leaving her mother to die by the arrows of Artemis herself. For Andromache, Hector is her mother, father, brother and her “blossoming” husband, and in this way Andromache would rather die before Hector does, so that she would not have to live in his absence caused her by his fall upon the battlefield as so many of her loved ones before him. In the Iliad, most characters display strictly the carnal aspect of love: for example Paris, after escaping from Menelaus with the help of Aphrodite, goes back to Helen and all that he wants from her is to go to bed with her. The love between Hector and Andromache...
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..." Rage--Goddess, sing the range of Peleus' son Achilles, murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses, hurling down to the house of death so many sturdy souls, great fighters' souls, but made their bodies carrion, feast for the dogs and birds, and the will of Zeus was moving toward its end..." (Iliad, 77) Fate plays an extensive role in the character's lives of Homer's epic, The Iliad. Homer not only shares the destiny of his characters with his audience, but He shares it with the characters themselves through the prophecies made by the Greek gods. There are many possible reasons why Homer reveals the final moments in the first pages of his book. Homer's original audience would have already been familiarized with the story and so to have the characters balanced with the audience, Homer reveals the characters fates' to them. This act of balancing the knowledge of fate is what gives the characters their tragedy and their appeal as they push forward heroically to their pre-destined doom. Knowing what the future holds will certainly affect one's present actions. It is only logical that the knowledge of one's fate will bring upon that individual a different perspective on life. Achilles made a pact with the gods that he would have a short and fulfilling life rather than a long and meaningless one. To Achilles, achievement and greatness was more important than the time he spent in this world. He went to troy knowing that it was going to be his death...
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...Kayla Romine Mr. Kaplan English 12 P.4 25 October 2011 Heroes Essay “Hero” is one of the thousands of words a person is capable of looking up in the dictionary and the definition is not exactly described what it is stated as. Many Americans believe that the definition they are capable of getting out of the dictionary is the most correct and reliable definition. However, that is not the case because everyone in the world as their own definition of a hero. On the website of The My Hero Project by Ashley from Fredericksburg it is stated, “ When asked "What is a hero?," Christopher Reeve replied that he used to believe a hero was someone who commits a courageous action without considering the consequences. Now he believes that ‘A hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.’ ” A hero does not have a specific definition that could be set in stone for each individual to comprehend. As in the Iliad with Achilles and in the epic of Beowulf, both were heroes in different ways. Whether it be them being main characters or being a male. Beowulf's’ heroic strengths and weaknesses versus the strengths and weaknesses of Achilles’ will be further described. Although the characteristics between the two are widely different, they are both fueled by pride and glory. The only reason Achilles goes to Troy is to enhance his own glory. On the other hand, Beowulf is not as persistent, but the value of glory in his society implies...
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...Louis Markos in his article “Homer’s Illiad: Civilization versus Barbarism” explores how faith of Christians can be strengthened by reading the Pagan classics like Homer’s Illiad. Markos starts by comparing Homer’s world to a pre-Mosaic world of Genesis. He states that they live in a world that is pre-moral and pre-legal, but are still without a sense of what is moral and lawful. Markos then begins to explain what happens in the first five books in The Illiad. He discusses that every single one of Homer’s warriors get to display their arete, which means excellence. They all strive to achieve arete, but every time they get their moment to shine, Achilles comes in and puts them to shame. Markos says, “The godlike Achilles will achieve that which the rest of us lesser morals merely strive for.” This clarifies that all of the soldiers look up to Achilles and strive to be like him. Markos then focuses on book six where Homer carries the reader from war to peace and barbarism to civilization. He talks about Homer’s moral compass throughout The Illiad and states the laws of xenia, known as the guest-host relationship. This means that both guests and the host have to treat each other the same. The host must provide hospitality and the guest is not suppose to take advantage of the host. He relates this concept to the Old and New Testament. One example is in Genesis 18 where Abraham is rewarded for the hospitality he shows the three angels. In The Illiad, the guest-host relationship plays...
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...indented, italicized, lowercase paragraph ending with a period” (p. 62). 3. What do the initials “DOI” represent? What is it, and why is it important? According to The Publication Manual DOI represents digital object identifiers. The DOI system was “developed by a group of international publishers...[to provide] a means of persistent identification for managing information on digital networks (p. 188). 4. What is the web address for the off-campus access EZ Proxy login? https://www.liberty.edu/index.cfm?pid=2955 5. What kinds of resources can you access through the Liberty University Online Library? Resources that can be accessed are newspapers, articles, and ebooks. 6. What is ILLIAD? ILL in ILLIAD means inter-library loan. ILLIAD is the software Liberty University uses to...
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...The three diverse pieces of literature that I understand are The Illiad written by Homer, The Odyssey written by Homer, and Oedipus Rex written by Sophocles. How they are relevant to today is; The Illiad makes it relevant to today by in life love can make you do some strange things, The Odyssey make it relevant to today by in life no matter what you go through an how long you go through it if you have a goal in life and all those objects and hurdles come around in life don’t let that stop you from getting to your goal that you want to achieve for yourself, and Oedipus Rex makes it relevant to today by in life your fears my come a reality that you can’t shy away from it cause it can make you or break you. In the story of The illiad Paris, a son of the king of Troy, kidnaps Helen, who becomes the legendary "Helen of Troy" and "the woman with the face that launched a thousand ships." He takes her because he fell in love with her and because of that he cause a war for the empire of troy and cause the destruction of try as well. That goes to show that love can and will make you do the most a strangest things and also will make you not think or consider the outcome of bad decisions that you make. In the story of the Odyssey, Odysseus has been gone from Ithaca for about 20 years — the first 10 spent fighting the Trojan War, the last 10 trying to get home. Odysseus is a king who fought in the Trojan War; but before he left he promised his wife that if he don’t return before...
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...that’s during the fifth century. (Bantwal, 2008) Greek Education For Greek children, their education mostly consisted of poetry and song. (Hadas, 1950) Education was more popular among young boys but it was not uncommon for girls. The wealthier children remained in school for ten years. Grammatistes, paidotribes and kitharistes were the teachers who taught the children. Grammatistes taught literature, arithmetic, reading and writing. Paidotribes coached boxing, wrestling, and gymnastics. Kitharistes taught music. At age eighteen, boys would train for the military for two years before further education. (Discovery Channel, n.d) The Illiad and the Odyssey Homer wrote the two most classic poems titled the Illiad and the Odyssey. The Illiad is based on the last six weeks of the Trojan War. The main character of the Illiad is Achilles. Achilles and Agamemnon get in a heated argument and Achilles retracts from the war. The Greeks are losing the battle and Achilles does not rejoin the battle until he hears that his friend Patroclus has been killed. Achilles comes up with a plan to build a hollow wooden horse, known as the Trojan horse, as a gift to the Persians. The Greek men entered the horse and waited for instruction. The Persians pushed the horse into their territory behind guarded walls. Once night fell the Greek men jumped...
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...Psychology Course, 255-D14, Liberty University Online, 1971 University Boulevard, Lynchburg, VA, 24515. E-mail: mjricca@liberty.edu Questions and Answers This segment will encompass six numerical and sequential questions, with the question, being first, with its derived answer directly below it. 1. “If someone wanted to know where to find the official criteria for proper APA style, what source would be used?” If one wanted to find or obtain the official source representing proper APA style, one could elicit the internet and find the exacting website, and or obtain the official manual itself, by utilizing the proper discovery and identification reference, which is: Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th ed. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 2010. 2. “How many levels of headings are identified in APA style? What would be the proper style for each of those headings?”(Describe how each of those headings would be formatted.) What is the purpose for using different levels of headings?” The APA recommends five workable formatting constructs concurrent with the regulating levels, which are considered subordinate. The specific heading levels are numbered one through five, irrespective of the amount of stages and the subheadings within in its division and the headings construct. For all of the divisions ensue the same or similar development. The segments initiate a protocol from the uppermost rank of heading...
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...underworld where mammoth fields bloom and where majestic monsters roam. They spend a short period together before Shun passes on, leading Asuna to feelings of longing. It isn't long before Ryuuji Morisaki, a substitute teacher, discusses the legend of Agartha (Shamballa, Hades etc. in other literary beliefs) in class, picking Asuna's interest. She visits him later that day and comes to learn of his intentions, eventually agreeing to accompany him on his journey to Agartha. Evaluation: Well this movie obviously reflects the other belief of another world, god, and mythical creatures, which proves that this is really related to what we are studying especially in the story of Illiad and Oddysey. In comparison the presence of gods and goddesses, mythical creatures, prophets and heroes are bought seen in Homer’s Illiad and Oddysey and in this movie. I’ve spent almost two...
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