Iliad Homer

This paper will explicate The Iliad, Book 21, Ll. 99-127 with respect to syntax, diction, and figurative language. This passage is the scene of Lycáon’s death at the hand of Achilles, who is on a killing spree after the death of Patroclus. The...

Literature is one of the best ways to understand a culture. Through literature, in fact, it is possible to analyze the customs and traditions of a specific society and to comprehend its way of life. While the Homeric poems, for instance, offer a...

Humans are complex beings, each with individual traits, and an individual set of traits that they value in others. Despite this individuality, cultures are formed, in part, by the values they possess and nurture in their society as a whole. In the...

If the Iliad were a simple war narrative with a clear bias towards the protagonist's side, Sarpedon would be portrayed as a two-dimensional enemy soldier who dies during the action. However, the Iliad is no such story. Complex and intensely human...

Homer’s Iliad tells the tale of how Achilleus, the all-powerful warrior of the Achaian army, turned the tides of the Trojan War following a dispute with Agamemnon, the king of Mycenae. While this story does not serve as a telling of the...

Most translations of Homer’s The Iliad keep the entire narrative of the story, incorporating Homer’s themes on the glory of war. Alice Oswald, however, chooses to deviate from this aspect of Homer’s epic in her Memorial: A Version of Homer’s...

Defining boundaries of morality is no easy task, but it is one humanity must perform every day. The characters of The Iliad, The Odyssey, and the book of Genesis are no exception to this. Throughout all three literary works, the characters are...

Despite the passage of time, core values have prevailed as timeless and defining characteristics of human beings. Among them, friendship plays a pivotal part in the development of a person, making it stand out as one of the most valued. Friendship...

The Greek minstrel Homer’s epic poem, The Iliad, is one of the most popular works of literature in history, and for good reason. In it, and its companion poem, The Odyssey, the happenings of the legendary Trojan War as well as certain events...

In Homer’s Iliad, readers can observe the dueling and opposite nature of the personalities and characters of Agamemnon, king of the Achaeans, and Priam, king of Troy. Some may wonder, if when a king must choose a method of ruling his people, is it...

In Homer’s Iliad, Andromache expresses her feelings of abandonment and grief after her husband, Hektor, tragically dies in the Trojan War. In Book 22, the narrator uses word choice in order to display Andromache’s feelings of abandonment, while...

Homer’s The Iliad is an epic poem written in Ancient Greek times about the conquest of Troy by the Achaeans. It details the heroic tales of many famous Greek warriors and figures such as: Achilles, Hector, Odysseus, Agamemnon, and Ajax. The poem...

The oral tradition of Archaic Greece involved reciters who recreated the individual characters and incidences each time the poems were orated. The Iliad as among literature conceived during ancient Greece were preserved through oral culture in...

The oral tradition of Archaic Greece involved reciters who recreated the individual characters and incidences each time the poems were orated. The Iliad as among literature conceived during ancient Greece were preserved through oral culture in...

It’s hard to believe a book full of farting and penis jokes could have themes that are applicable to the modern world. The Clouds by Aristophanes though, has a mix of immature comedy, and rather serious commentary on generational differences....

An exegetical essay on the following passage:

Iliad. III.442-524: From “Then off she went herself to summon Helen...” all the way to “irresistible longing lays me low”.

Lines before this passage, Paris was in combat with Menelaus on the verge of...

While Hector and Odysseus in Homer’s The Iliad and The Odyssey are seen as clear heroes, the Argonautica differs in its approach to Jason, as his relatively average abilities are matched by his typically anti-heroic habit of letting others do the...

Both The Iliad and The Republic present a form of hero. Achilles of The Iliad embodies the conventional idea of the hero: physically strong, warlike, and honor-loving. However, Socrates of The Republic, with his never-ending search for wisdom,...

“The Trojans came down on them in a pack, and Hektor led them raging straight forward, like a great rolling stone from a rock face that a river swollen with winter rain has wrenched from its socket and with immense washing broken the hold of the...

For every great war, there is a payment to be made- in blood, loss, sacrifice - for the hope of a greater glory. Each person involved gives up something, or many things, for a victory that may or may not come. In The Iliad and Iphigenia at Aulis,...

Homer's Iliad is full of epic battles and massive deaths, so, unsurprisingly, many audiences turn their main attention to the description of the direct combat between the Akhaians and Trojans. Even though the war mostly takes place during the day,...

The Iliad is an ancient Greek epic poem telling the story of the last 50 days of the ten year long war between the Greeks and the Trojans. Although the poem is attributed to Homer, it is a compilation of the long-standing tradition of oral...

“Athena, [in pursuit of her] adventures as a woman, [tied to an immortal and moral world that is] dominated by a male ethos”, is used to highlight the importance of gender in an unforgiving society. As a woman, Athena is enslaved to her gender, in...

In The Iliad and The Odyssey, there are numerous minor and major female characters who are depicted in varying forms in terms of femininity and ideality. Most of the female characters in both epics are depicted as feeble, delicate, manipulative,...