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Three elements of the modern world the Greeks and Trojans in the Iliad would find strange are the relative unimportance of warfare to our culture, our more fluid gender roles, and our relationship...
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The first task is to establish the viewpoint of the Iliad. While there are different perspectives in the poem, with the dissident voice of Thersites at the beginning providing an interesting...
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Any historical basis to the story of the Trojan War is so shrouded in mystery and so widely disputed that we are obliged to treat the war as an event in literature an mythology rather than in...
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In order to answer the first part of your question, it is important to stress that the Trojan War took place in the Bronze Age, which means that no true, verifiable historical accounts exist....
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According to Homer’s Iliad, the Trojan War resulted from disagreements among the Greek gods. While a number of gods played active roles, the basic controversy was among three goddesses: Hera,...
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In book one of Homer's Iliad, we receive a lot of impressions about Agamemnon. None of them are too favorable. One of the first impressions we see is that of stubbornness and inflexibility. When...
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As we see in Book III of the Iliad, Helen and Paris have mixed feelings for one another. Especially in Helen, lust and an extreme desire for Paris mix with a sense of sorrow and disgust at the...
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The first line of Homer's Iliad references Achilles' anger which "brought countless ills" to all the parties involved in the Trojan War. Achilles fights his battles literally and figuratively...
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In Book One of The Iliad, Agamemnon comes off as a proud, antagonistic man. The central conflict of this section is between Agamemnon and Achilles, as they fight over the possession of Briseis, a...
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In the Iliad, the Gods and Goddesses play a very important part. In order to answer your question, you might want to explain that this is because the Ancient Greek faith believed that the Gods were...
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In Book I of The Iliad Agamemnon comes across as vain, stubborn, arrogant, and totally incompetent. As king of Mycenae and commander-in-chief of the Argive forces, Agamemnon feels that he has the...
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Even if one accepts that there really is such a thing as unconditional love between humans, it’s notable by its absence from the relationship between Helen and Paris. To a large extent, this is...
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In common with most characters in Homer, Achilles doesn’t develop all that much over the course of the epic. The Achilles that we meet at the end of the poem is pretty much the same as the Achilles...
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The gods and goddesses of Ancient Greek mythology regularly intervene throughout The Iliad. They get involved at key points, invariably driving the action forward. In doing so, they show themselves...
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Even though Achilles doesn’t spend a whole lot of time fighting in The Iliad, he’s nonetheless the most important character in the play. His implacable wrath at having his sex slave appropriated by...
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In answering this question, it’s important to understand that the Greeks have been laying siege to Troy for ten long years. This would put a huge psychological strain on anyone, including trained...
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Agamemnon, king of Mycenae and commander-in-chief of the Argive forces, is very similar to his greatest warrior, Achilles. Stubborn, arrogant, and full of pride, he never hesitates to let those...
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In Homer’s epic, Achilles is a pivotal figure whose inability to control his temper has devastating consequences not only for him and his close friends, but for the Greek forces as a whole. His...
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Hector is a main hero of the Trojans who shows great courage in battle. Part of Hector's heroism lies in leaving his wife Andromache and young son to go to battle in book six of the Iliad despite...
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In the Iliad, tragedy helps Achilles mature as a person. Achilles sulks in his tent after Agamemnon takes Briseis, a young woman who has been captured as war booty, for his own. Achilles feels...
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The Trojans tend to be portrayed quite favorably by Homer, even to such a degree that many Greek and Roman literary critics speculated that Homer himself may have been Trojan. They are shown as a...
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Although she has a small role in Homer's epic poem The Iliad, Helen has a profound impact on the action of the plot. She is, after all, the primary cause of the Trojan War during which the poem is...
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According to Greek mythology, the Trojan War was caused by jealousy and competition. The story goes that the Greek goddess Eris was unhappy because she was not invited to a banquet Zeus was...
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While I cannot actually draw a mind map, I can give you a chronology of events that led up to the Trojan War. Much of this chronology is based on Greek myth and the ancient Greek belief that gods...
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The Iliad is Homer's fictionalized representation of the events of the Trojan War. Although the war between Troy and Greece had many causes, the single incident that has most often been...
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One theme of the Iliad is an exploration of love. For example, Hector shows love for his wife, Andromache, and their very young son, Astyanax, as he (Hector) goes off to fight. Andromache shows her...
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It has been established by scholars that the Iliad contains textual layers that pertain to various epochs beginning from Pre-Mycenaean era and ending at least with the ninth century BCE. Thus,...
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While it is often said that Achilles's fatal flaw was his anger, his hubris could also be considered a contributing factor to his eventual downfall. His hubris could have stemmed from the...
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At the end of Book VI in the Iliad, Hector's wife, Andromache, and their young son bid farewell to him on the eve of battle. It is a touching scene of domesticity, showing the kind of tender home...
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Achilles is sulking in his tent like a grounded teenager, having been deprived of his sex-slave by Agamemnon. As king, Agamemnon was perfectly within his rights to do this. But his fateful decision...
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The Mahabharata and the Ramayana are both much longer than the Iliad. The Mahabharata, the longer of the two, is approximately twenty times the length of Homer's epic. Moreover, while it seems...
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As there are several hundred characters covered in this question, it is not possible to simultaneously be accurate and cover the topic completely. The one accurate generalization one could make is...
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While it is true that Dante is sympathetic to the Trojans, it is not fair to say that Homer favors the Greeks. In fact, Homer's impartiality in the Iliad is remarkable. Hector is perhaps the most...
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After Agamemnon wakes up from his dream, he tests the fighting spirit of his men by telling them that the time has come to give up the struggle and go home. Instead of standing their ground like...
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Pegasus was a divine immortal winged horse. He was a child of Poseidon, the Olympian god of the sea, and the evil Gorgon Medusa, a winged female with snakes instead of hair who could turn people...
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It can often seem as if everything is preordained in the Iliad, but there are many places where individuals exercise free will or can make their own choices. Achilles is a case in point. He is...
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No one else, of course, can know your opinions after reading the Iliad but it is possible to offer some guidance in determining what to write. I would do the following. Since there is so much going...
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The Iliad is one of the most widely-studied books in the world, and several categories of knowledge can be gained from it. First and most obviously, one learns about the story of the Trojan war,...
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Book 1 of the Iliad begins with the poet's invocation of the Muse. This is a common storytelling device from Homeric times. Basically, Homer is asking the Muse to speak through him and tell the...
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As there are numerous different characters in all of these works, a comparison of all of them to each other would run to hundreds of pages. The conflict between the Trojans and Greeks is handled...
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This is a good question. The most cunning person in the Iliad is Odysseus. He shows his cunning or intelligence in a few ways. First, in book two when Agamemnon tells the Greeks that they are...
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In Homer's Iliad, the epic poet's heroes are often motivated by kleos, a Greek word which can carry meanings such "good reputation", "fame", and "glory." In the opening of Iliad 5, for example,...
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Now that is a good question. The Iliad is a classic and the reason it is so is because it is so applicable to all of us. The Iliad has many themes that are universal. Moreover, Homer is able to...
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Greek religion, as portrayed in the Homeric epics, is characterized as "anthropomorphic." That means that the gods have "human forms." They are similar to humans in more than just outward form....
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The quarrel between Achilles and Agamemnon in Book 1 of Homer's Iliad sets in motion a chain of events that will affect the tenth and final year of the legendary Trojan War. In the first nine years...
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The original question had to be edited. Hector's motivations as both a warrior and man of family help to illuminate his truly tragic condition. His motivations in both realms are extremely...
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One of the major differences between the movie and Homer's epic poem is that the Iliad ends with the funeral of Hector, whereas the movie goes on to portray other events (e.g., the wooden horse)...
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Arete is the term given to excellence or honour that was won by heroes by achieving feats of great skill or bravery. Arete is a central theme to this book as the warriors all are striving to gain...
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The brief answer to this is that Achilles's reaction to Patroclus's death was one of intense anger and an overwhelming desire for revenge. It was when Patroclus died that Achilles finally got over...
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This is an interesting question, as Homer present conflicting ideas about war in the Iliad. On the one hand, it is a way men achieve glory. It is also a way individuals can achieve a form of...
