Achilles And Ajax Research Paper

The Greeks took care of the dead by washing them, putting them in tombs, and bringing offerings to their grave. The women’s role was to wash and wrap the dead bodies in cloth. They also decorated them with flowers and herbs. The men dug the area in which the body was to be buried. On this first piece of pottery, it looks like people are walking as if they were in a funeral procession. Women are surrounding the dead person and men are following the women. The pottery has a top that looks like a funnel which comes down and narrows out into a long neck. At the bottom of the long neck it starts to get wider and forms a shape that looks like a vase. The vase sits on a very small pedestal. On the sides of the narrow neck there are two handles that look like very long and thin wings. On the neck of the pot, there is one women standing there. The design above her head looks like a wreath. She looks like she is crying over a body. She is on top of everything that is on the pottery which leads me to conclude that she is an important part of this piece. The dead person may have been her son or husband. At the bottom of the pottery there is a design that looks like black spikes. The pot is entirely black with the picture in gold paint. This pot was called a Loutrophoros. It was used for holding water to wash the dead body. After the body was buried, the Greeks put offerings on the graves of the people who have passed away. This next

Many people have heard of Achilles, whether in Greek Mythology or when referring to the tendon in their foot. He is well known in the Iliad as the main force for the Achaeans in the Trojan War, dubbed the “swiftest warrior,” “Achilles dear to Zeus”, and “brilliant runner.” However many do not know the story of Achilles when he walks away from the Achaean campaign over a scuffle of war prizes. His action cripples the Achaean army, costing the lives of many. The story of the Trojan War is one where Achilles ultimately leads the Achaeans to Troy and kills Hector outside Priam’s walls. However, it was Patroclus, Achilles’ brother-in-arms, who should be accredited with the Achaean victories and know for his success against the Trojans in the

In the Greek epic, The Iliad, Homer describes the siege and capture of the ancient city of Troy by Achilles and the Achaean warriors. Achilles, being a fearless fighter, defeated many throughout his battles against the Trojan army, including the brave-hearted Hector during the invasion of Troy. Though Achilles has been given the title of the hero of the Trojan War, many historians believe that Hector was a greater hero than Achilles. When comparing the characteristics of an epic hero such as being a national hero and having supernatural abilities, Hector clearly surpasses Achilles. In this essay, the argument will be supported through the context of the heroic personas revealed by the warriors and the non-heroic qualities that dishonored

In Homer’s epic, the Iliad, the legendary, has no two characters that are so similar yet so different as Greek warrior, Achilles, and the Prince of Troy, Hector. Achilles is the strongest fighter in the Greek side, and Hector is the strongest Trojan. They are both put into the mold of a hero that their respective societies have put them into; however; it is evident that they are both extremely complex characters with different roles within their society and with their families, and with the gods.

Madeline Miller’s The Song of Achilles re-tells the classic tale of The Iliad through the romantic relationship highly speculated between Achilles and Patroclus. In a diachronic approach to historical queer narratives, I will analyze queer identities and representation within literature with an emphasis on contemporary queer narratives. Queer narratives are especially important stories to perpetuate and recognize both historically and contemporarily, as they impose, perpetuate, or upset notions of normalcy. The Song of Achilles solidifies historical queer identities and experiences that have otherwise been absent, overlooked, or erased in the Iliad (and other historical texts). Accurate queer representation is important for understanding the historical past, giving voice, visibility, and validation to queer identities, and recreating identity in the present.

In Homer’s great work, the Iliad, Achilles is given a set of armor, including a glorious shield which allows him to return to battle and carry out his revenge against Hector. Likewise, in Virgil’s Aeneid, Aeneas is sent a shield for the purpose of aiding him in defending Rome from invasion. However, these shields are made special not by their military value, but by the engravings that decorate their surfaces.

The piece is a red-figured, wine bowl that is attributed to the Niobid Painter. It was made in Athens, Greece around 460-450 BC, and found in Altamura. Puglia, Italy (British Museum). There are two scenes on top of one another that occur in the piece. The top scene is the creation of Pandora. She is standing rigid while five of the gods are standing around her. Athena is about to put a wreath on her head. The scene below displays a frieze of dancing and playing satyrs. Because the vase is round it isn’t possible to see all the figures in the piece. But looking at the piece from the front, six gods are portrayed in the top scene. The gods in the scene from left to right are: Zeus, Poseidon, Athena, Pandora, Ares, and Hermes. The gods in the piece are identifiable because of distinguishable traits that certain characters

The Vase was popular with Achilles and Ajax playing a board game painting on a vase become popular back in ancient Greece because of the men were heroes that help influence our culture today in museums, artwork and on film. Dr. Harris and Dr. Zucker will go over the vase and describe the tone and the way it was painted on how the heroes played a board game in Troy during a fight became one of the popular pieces of art pottery back in modern times is used in museum and on film to represent ancient Greece during the Trojan war (Dr. Harris, Dr. Zucker) In Modern times Rose created a video about the life of Achilles from the time he was born, and in training to fight in the war and how he became the hero in the Trojan war and how a king had a man ordered to kill Achilles. This is on media and on YouTube

all the commotion was about, she was amazed at the sight of her infant son

The 5th century BC would have been a perilous time for a citizen of a Greek state. Not only did Greece defend herself from an external threat but her very own clans warred against themselves. In this chaotic climate, the theatre became an outlet for Athenians to flesh out the underlying themes of war, conquest and their very own humanity. There could be no better setting for such a quest than one intertwined in the very fabric of Greek consciousness. The Homeric tradition itself is not a simple self-congratulatory tail of Achaean triumph. Both sides are united by the tragedy of a city under siege (Miles 1986, 189). Epic tradition deals with mortality and the human condition in an unexpected way; at its core, it sees the enemy as an extension of itself (Dué 2006, 3). Achilles (Hom. Il., 9.323–27) and Odysseus (Hom. Od., 8.521–31) invoke the laments of Trojan women for their husbands, the very soldiers that might have fallen by their own swords (Dué 2002, 5-11). Specifically, the swift-footed Achilles relates to a woman at a visceral level with a simile of a mother bird that has toiled to raise her young only to lose them (Dué 2006, 3). Hektor’s death should be a clear Achaean highpoint in the narrative but it is immediately dampened by the following scenes of a despairing father, mother and wife (Hom. Il., 22.404-515). Finally, the closing stages of the Iliad does not leave the audience with the funerary scenes of Achilles’ inevitable end but of his nemesis Hektor

I was privy to many discussions and arguments that took place behind the backs of the soldiers’ leadership as to why they should do what they were being commanded to do by them. All too often soldiers begin to become complacent when they feel over taxed by their leadership or taken advantage of and become pathos driven when they cannot see the fruits of their labor coming to fruition during war or even peacekeeping missions; especially long deployments such as Iraq, Afghanistan or Kosovo. Achilles speech in “The Envoys Plead with Achilles” is pathos driven because it exemplifies aspects of emotionally driven complacency experienced in war due to selfish deceitful leadership, length of deployments, and a feeling

I am Achilles, a DemiGod. my parents are Thetis a ,Nereid or sea nymph and Peleus, King of Myrmidons.From the time of my birth a prophecy predicted I would have an early death. This caused my mother to be incredibly wary of my actions and take precautions to insure my long life. The river Styx forms a boundary between the underworld and Earth, because of its miraculous ability to make those dipped in it immortal and no longer susceptible to injury, following my birth my mother dipped me into it headfirst, completely submerging me underwater. This made me nearly invincible. Her only mistake was forgetting to allow water to touch where she placed her hand on me thus, making my heels the only vulnerable part on my body. After dipping me in the

To be a great warrior you must possess many great skills like courage, strength, endurance, and knowledge. Achilles had all of these skills plus many more. During the movie, Troy, he expresses all of his skills during the Trojan War. Achilles is very arrogant and self centered, but as the movie and war go on he transforms into a heartfelt mortal human being.

Achilles, the Greek warrior in the Greek mythology The Iliad died because of his only weakness, his Achilles heel. Similar to Achilles, everyone has a weakness that will prevent them from succeeding in their goals. My Achilles heel is that I easily get flustered when I see that my peers have surpassed me academically; when this occurs I become discouraged about my own academic achievements.

A competition between the Gods caused a huge turmoil between the mortals. From the competition, Paris ended up kidnapping Helen from her husband Menelaus, which started a ten-year war between the Greeks and the Trojans. Menelaus goes to his brother Agamemnon, King of Argos, and Agamemnon gathers an army to fight. For their journey, Agamemnon brings his daughter Iphigenia, so that she can wed Achilles. While traveling, they stop on the coast of Chalkis (in Aulis), which is an island where they had unfavorable winds. Agamemnon killed a deer in a grove that is sacred to Artemis so to show her wrath, she prevented the Greeks from getting to their destination. The seer that was with them told Agamemnon in order to get the winds in their favor, he had to make a sacrifice, and he sacrifices his daughter. Since Agamemnon made the decision that was only best for him, it was morally incorrect for him to sacrifice his daughter.