Beachhead In Latium Character Analysis

Now Theseus is older and is in his father’s palace in Athens, the fame seeking youth decided to set his sights on a new journey. A journey which would lead to him being loved and remembered by all the people of Athens. During this time Athens had a severe problem, the neighboring island Crete would attack them every so often. The king of Athens decided to try and compromise with Crete. He stated if Crete left Athens alone for nine years they would send fourteen Athenian youths seven male and seven females as a sacrifice to Minos to be fed to the Minotaur king Minos pet. The king of Athens goal was to build a strong navy, so they could defend themselves from Crete. Surprisingly the king of Crete Mino kept his word and never attacked Athens. Now nine years had come, and it was Athens turn to keep their word. The king of Athens was conflicted as he knew the value of keeping one's word. Theseus seeing this as the perfect opportunity to earn new fame and liken his image in Athens volunteered as the seventh male Athenian youth. Theseus’s goal is to slay the Minotaur and save his fellow Athenians. Theseus promises his father, he will return alive and when he does, he will change the color of the sail on the ship from white to black. In the event the sails stay black his father should assume Theseus has met his demise. After the Athenians arrive in Crete they are welcomed by King Mino’s and princess Ariadne, upon seeing

Aeneas was happy in Carthage with queen Dido, but when Jupiter saw that Aeneas was getting a little too comfortable in Carthage, he sent Mercury to remind Aeneas that his fate lies in Italy not in Carthage, after Aeneas heard this he was shocked but complied knowing that he must obey the gods. Showing that he was an obedient man.

Chapter 2- During Telemachus’ assembly, Alcinous makes a point of saying that the suitors wouldn’t stay if Penelope didn’t seduce every man without marrying anyone. Telemachus prepares his journey to Pylos and Sparta to learn if his father remained living, but doesn’t tell anyone of his travel except Eurycleia.

Here is one of the greatest if not the greatest of the gods, Zeus, complying with Thetis' plea to help the Trojans, and his biggest concern is upsetting his wife. This scene contrasts how the humans lives are in the hands of feeble gods who are sometimes unable to make uninfluenced decisions without the influence of others or worrying about what another will think or say to them simply because she will be ‘scolding all day long'. Another favor which helped turn the tide of war in favor of the Achaeans again involves Achilles and Thetis, however this time she seeks the aid of Hephaestus. Thetis goes to Hephaestus because Achilles armor is in the hands of Hector who killed Achilles dear friend Patroclus.

The first people he sees are Leucaspis and Orontes, they were last seen sailing their ships away from Troy. “Overwhelmed by the storm that engulfed their ships As they sailed the windy seas out of Troy.” (p. 86)

No one ages, Odysseus can have anything he could ever want and more. However, the beautiful nymph is not on his mind. He knows he needs to get home and this stay on the island delaying his fate. He ends up staying with Calypso's island for 7 years and they live together as if they were married. In uncanny correlation, when Aeneas arrives on the land of Carthage he meets Dido who is impressed and later falls into ceaseless, passionate love with him, thanks to Cupid, and the mastermind goddesses behind the love affair, Venus and Juno. Dido and Aeneas eventually live together for a while, as though they were married, building a new home. In both of these men's journey, a woman is put in their path, diverts the men's attention away from their goal, and delays both Odysseus' and Aeneas' fate to return home. Though the homecoming looks different for the two men, both of the women are distractions. After Odysseus and Aeneas seem to have forgotten where they need to be, a divine being has to intervene in order for them to get back on their journey. For Odysseus and Aeneas both, Hermes comes to their rescue by order of Zeus. Hermes reminds the men of their tasks and journeys of which they are

Aeneas, the central figure in the Aeneid, personifies the Roman value of pietas. Pietas is one’s “respect for the gods, and dedication to both one’s family and community” (Lecture 10/20/17). Therefore, Aeneas starts the Aeneid very much unlike the traditional Homeric hero and as a consequence, unlike Achilles. In fact, the Aeneas closely resembles the Trojan prince Hector, the defender of Troy in the Iliad. He characterizes each of the qualities of pietas in his escape from Troy. During his escape, he states “take into your hands, Father, the sacred gods / of our country” because “it would be a sacrilege” if Aeneas had with his bloodied hands (Aen. 2.844 - 845) Aeneas is

The interactions between these is clear from book 1 where Juno is fuming because her favoured city Carthage has been prophesized to be destroyed by Trojans, who she already holds hatred for. She calls on Aeolus to let free the ‘brawling winds and howling storms’ [1.54] to keep Aeneas and his men from reaching their destiny in return for the most beautiful nymph. Aelous gives his consent to this

Human suffering as a major theme in Virgil’s piece is also evident in a speech that Aeneas delivers to his men in lines 198- 207 in Book I. In this scene, the remaining Trojans are forced to the shores of Libya after an intense storm and unforgiving winds which push the fleet off course. In his speech, Aeneas reminds his companions of more deadly adversities that they have previously faced and the destined mission to found a new Troy towards which they strive. After ten years of siege and warfare, the Trojans lost their home and many members of their families and fellow soldiers.

Long ago, there were two powerful nations located in southern Europe. First there were the Greeks, this nation was known for the first practice of democracy. Other than democracy, during the Greeks era there was a man by the name Homer who wrote a story called The Odyssey about a great legendary hero named Odysseus. After the Greeks, then came the Romans who ruled Greece for centuries. The Romans during their time were known to have practiced and used many of the Greeks cultures and theories. There was a Roman named Virgil who wrote about the beginning of the Romans. He created a story called The Aeneid; this story was about a Trojan who escaped a losing war to find a new home and peace. Even though these two stories may be hard to understand, Homer and Virgil are making statements about their nation after the Trojan War, because Odysseus was a legendary Greek king and Aeneas of Troy was known to be a beginning of the Romans.

In the Eumenides, Aeschylus manifests a new system of justice for the more civilised times. Orestes, plagued by the Furies, turns to Apollo (Eum: 88-90)

The fall of Troy was brought about because the god Minerva helped to fool the Trojans into accepting the wooden horse. Sinon tells the Greeks, "if your hands should harm Minerva's gift, / then vast destruction...would fall on Priam?s kingdom and the Phrygians; / but if it climbed by your hands into Troy, then Asia would repel the Greeks" (II.268-273). Minerva sends a strange sign to confirm this story: two giant serpents rise up from the sea, devour a priest and his two sons, and then slither up to the shrine of Minerva. The Trojans took this as a sign that they must appease the goddess, and so they wheeled the horse into the city of Troy. Throughout the book Aeneas is convinced that the gods are out to get him: "Had the outcome not / been fated by the gods...Troy, you would be standing yet" (II.75-79); "But oh, it is

Aeneas is a man who cares more about the community than his own desires, which is an essential Roman characteristic. When Troy is falling to the Greeks, Aeneas has a “burning desire / to avenge Troy and make [Helen] pay for her sins,” (Aen. 2.673-674) but he knows that there would be “no heroic name / in killing a woman,” (Aen. 2.682-683) so he decides to restrain himself. Aeneas can contain his strong desire to kill Helen because he realizes it would not be beneficial to his community because it would only cause grief and that grief would lead to further complications. This worry for how the community would be affected by his actions conveys how pietas can restrain personal passions so that nobody is harmed at the hands of self-interest alone.

Aeneas, the lead figure who is supposed to fulfill the Virgilian imperial mission and establish Rome, speaks quite assertively and very much sure of himself at his encounter with disguised Venus and introduces himself as “Of Troy am I, Aeneas is my name, / Who driven by warre from forth my native world, / Put sailes

3. Egeus wants to complain to Theseus about his daughter Hermia. Egeus wants her to marry Demetrius but she is in love with Lysander. He wants her to choose either Demetrius or death.