How Did Achilles Get An Arrow In The Odyssey

For one month Odysseus refuses to leave his safe home on Ithaca. We are not told of the rationale behind his final decision to join the war; however, we must assume that he believes he will be successful, returning home with many spoils of war. His decision to leave Ithaca cannot be merely an external one: he is a young king, and while he rules his land with great strength, he is inexperienced (he does not wish to go off to battle (Book 24, ll. 126-128)). In part, his reasons for initiating his journey must include the experience and maturity he will gain fighting the Trojans.

Another reason of Paris’ death was the Nurse. She encouraged Juliet to like Paris when she said, “A man, young lady! Lady, such a man as all the world—Why, he’s a man of wax!” ( 1.3.75-76). The Nurse also didn’t try to stop Romeo and Juliet’s relationship and even encouraged it. The nurse said,”Then hie you hence to Friar Lawrence’ cell: there stays a husband to make you a wife” (2.5.68-69). This led to the marriage and love between Romeo and Juliet that resulted in Paris’ death.

A description of Achilles’s rage in Homer’s The Iliad is shown when Odysseus says to Agamemnon,

Odysseus trusts his noblest friends such as Eumaeus and his family but somehow forgets that he has fair Athene by his side through all of his adventurous toils. At this time Odysseus realizes this and tells his son that, "Here I now am by bidding of Athene, that we may plan together the slaughter of our foes"(157). This shows that Odysseus now trusts Athene to guide and assist him on his journey home.

In The Odyssey, Odysseus sails from his home island of Ithaca, Greece, to Troy. (modern day Turkey) His army and him defeat Troy with a tactful strategy, then leave for home. On the voyage home, Odysseus makes many mistakes like conceitedly setting up camp in a cyclops cave, sending his men to meet the Lotus Eaters, and disappointing the gods by stealing food from the land of the Cicones. But Odysseus makes up for his mistakes by saving his men from Circe. He also sacrifices his

Odysseus should be trusted as head of an army seeing that he can not even remain loyal to his men or word by returning them to their residence.

When he does get home he does not recognize where he is. He goes to the palace and regains trust of his fellow servants.He sees the suitors who are awaiting Penelope in marriage.Her last challenge shall be so string a bow and shoot an arrow through twelve axes. Odysseus disguised completes the task and has one final question from his longed wife. She tells the servants to get the bed\, however Odysseus knows you cant get the need for he has made it irremovable and Penelope

Odysseus is the leader of his men and it is his job to return them home safely. They look up to Odysseus and follow him, whether they believe he has made the right or wrong decision. When Odysseus and his men are stuck with the cyclops it is Odysseus that comes up with the plan to save them. Odysseus is smart and is favored by Athena and as such, Athena helps him devise a plan. One time when Odysseus’ men do not seek his advice they make a mistake and it costs them on their journey. “While Odysseus is sleeping the men open the bag, thinking it contains gold and silver. The bad winds thus escape and blow the ships back to Aeolus’ island.” “Book Ten, Page 916.” The quote shows that the men need Odysseus there to help them and that without him Odysseus men make stupid decisions. Because the men opened the bag Aeolus did not help them again, he believed that their voyage was cursed.

He had a hard time finding work due to his injuries. His wife and children soon left him. He became an alcoholic and died in 1929. His family thought he was buried at a grave in Albany. His relatives finally found out that he was buried in Arlington National Cemetery and that there was a giant

The Book 11 of The Odyssey serves as representing a foil to Achilles through Agamemnon and Achilles’ stories and showing us a different perspective about heroic death with fame and glory(kleos). Homer uses Agamemnon, Achilles, and Heracles as characters for a comparison between their ended lives in Hades and Odysseus’ undead life. The story of Achilles’ failure to return to home and Agamemnon’s tragic death from her faithless wife acts as a foil to Odysseus and her faithful wife in the Book 11. Also, the comparison between Heracles and Achilles in terms of their similar but different reasons of suffering gives another foil to Odysseus.

“But upon the tenth day Achilles called them in assembly moved thereto by Hera, who saw the Achaeans in their death-throes and had compassion upon them. Then, when they were got together, he rose and spoke among them” (Iliad 1.50-1.60). Achilles displays in this section of the narrative a strong sense of social order and concern for tor the plague within the Achaian camp. Achilles wants to know why, but His king Agamemnon will not act so Achilles calls an assembly of the entire army. In doing so Achilles upsets the order of protocol, as Agamemnon is the only one with the power to call an assembly as he is the “foremost of the Achaians” (Iliad 1.90). During the assembly Achilles finds out that Agamemnon is responsible for the deadly plague, thus creating disorder within the

Achilles’ insolent pride backfires on him when he becomes ultimately responsible for the death of his best friend Patroclus. Although Achilles still refuses to fight, he allows Patroclus to where his armor into battle. The sight of what the Trojans think is Achilles terrorizes them at first, but Apollo pushes him down and knocks off Patroclus’ armor. Hector sees the injured imposter on the ground and delivers a fatal wound. Only now, out of personal grief, does Achilles return to the battle.

The suspected start of the war- over the abduction of Helen, Queen of Sparta- was caused entirely by a godly conflict over who was the most beautiful- Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite. Paris, son of King Priam of Troy, was selected to judge. He chose Aphrodite, who in turn gave him Helen, who was her equivalent in beauty amongst humans. In both versions, Paris is portrayed as a wife stealing, thief in the night. His brother Hector and he were on a peace mission in Sparta on behalf of Troy visiting the king, Menelaus, when Paris ran off with Menelaus' wife, Helen. This action divides the Gods who constantly meddle with the mortal's lives. Naturally, Aphrodite is on the Trojans' side, as was her lover and God of War, Ares, and Apollo. Although Zeus, King of Gods, tried to be neutral, he was pro-Trojan. Hera, Queen of Gods, and Athena help the Greeks because they were mad that Paris chose Aphrodite. Poseidon, God of the Sea and Zeus' brother, also sided with the Greeks whenever Zeus was not looking. An example of this constant intrusiveness of the Gods in the Iliad was when King "Menelaus hurls his spear, lightly wounding Paris. Paris' helmet strap becomes caught at his chin and Menelaus has nearly dragged him away before Aphrodite intervenes, breaking the strap. She then wraps Paris in a mist, sets him in his own perfumed bedchamber, and hurries to catch Helen" (Bloom 13). Of

The chains have been released as his tribal shame dissolves into the bath. The narrator says, “The bow leapt back to the palm of the warrior. / The yoke of the wrong name lifted off his shoulders” (49.2.1-2). Philoctete is just as powerful as the Greek Philoctetes as he will yield the bow of Heracles to kill Paris, which ends the Trojan War. Philoctete serves as a vessel in delivering his people from oppressive colonial wounds.

In the battle between Hector and Achilles, there was more on the line than winning the war. Until the end of the poem, it can be argued that both Achilles and Hector fit the role of an epic hero, but there can only be one. The battle represented who would ultimately be determined the epic hero. In Homer’s epic poem, The Iliad, Achilles is crafted into an epic hero throughout the poem by the illustration of the qualities of an epic hero: a great warrior, help from the supernatural, an epic flaw, and an epic journey.