Category: Iliad

The Iliad During ancient times, kings used battles to extend their kingdoms. The stories told of ancient battles mention kings and heroes as the central pillars of conquest in a battle of kingdoms. Indeed, this explains why cities of old were high-walled. The Trojan War is an ancient battle featuring the Trojans and Achaeans (Greek…

In todays battles, soldiers wear uniforms designed to make them indistinguishable from each other. Forced to wear the same clothes and don identical haircuts, soldiers are stripped of their identity as they collectively become G.I Joes. Conversely, in Homers epic The Iliad, warriors dress in decorative armor and wield glitzy weapons and shields to stand…

After reading The Iliad and learning about the gods and goddesses, it is obvious that there were many sacrifices made throughout the poem by different characters. Some of the sacrifices made were extremely crucial while others resulted in death. The reason for sacrifice varied depending on the situation and whose life may be put on…

If there were a thousand and one pages to write on Sappho, it still would not be enough. So I choose to only write five. Throughout this research assignment there were many ways found to express the meaning of Sappho, Poem 16. I have decided to focus my essay on the differences between meanings of…

The point which is to be adressed in the beginning is what is an epic poem and an epic film? An epic poem, epic, epoc, or epopee is a long narrative poem, usually involving a period beyond living memory in which the extraordinary acts of the extraordinary men and women who, in dealing with gods…

In my opinion, Virgil didnt imitate Homer with Aeneid, however Virgil simply expanded on Homers ideas and wrote in his own words through his poem. Instead of rewriting Iliad or Odyssey, Virgil continues the story after the fall of Troy using Aeneas. Virgil uses a lot of Homers images patterns like the symbol of fire,…

The Odyssey- is best understood as a ‘reception’ or ‘reading’ of the Iliad but one that ultimately wants to problematize its source text– that is, Homer (as a shorthand for whoever the author was) wants the Odyssey to address the same major issues as the Iliad but come to a fundamentally different conclusion as to…

Homers The Iliad and The Odyssey are poems centered around the events of the Trojan War. The Iliad recounts the events from the Trojan war during the final weeks whereas The Odyssey is a sequel telling the story of Odysseus and his journey back home. Within the poems, the role of gods and goddesses plays…