Achilles

“Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt,” William Caprow, British Poet. Homer’s Iliad tells the story of Achilles, one of the greatest warriors this world has ever seen, a man mastered in the art of killing. As a demigod, Achilles could not escape the treacherous fate of death, and only through glory could his name endure. So, Achilles lives his life pursuing such glory at all costs. While his counterpart in Troy, Hektor, pursues communal virtue and honor. The two face off to conclude

"Sing, goddess, of Achilles ruinous anger Which brought ten thousand pains to the Achaeans, And cast the souls of many stalwart heroes To Hades, and their bodies to the dogs And birds of prey" (Homer). Containing a war that echoes through the ages, the Iliad was an epic writing of conflict and struggle between two kingdoms. The poem is one of the most insightful, eventful, and influential writings of Greek mythology. Homer, whether or not if he was real, wrote these poems based on oral stories passed

Evidence of this can be found during arguments between Achilles and Agamemnon. For example, when Agamemnon attempts to get Achilles to come back, by giving him gifts, Achilles mentions how “[He has] raided twelve cities with [the greek] ships/And eleven on foot in the fertile Troad.” He “Looted them all” and “brought back heirlooms/By the ton,” but he still had to “[hand] it all over/ To [Agamemnon].” Achilles was angry about this because “[Agamemnon] hung back in camp/ Raking it

Achilles to return to battle. Main points of each character’s speech Main points of Achilles’ response to them Odysseus… Told Achilles the Greeks desperately need him to help them since they’re on the verge of being slaughtered by the Trojans Told Achilles about Agamemnon’s offer to reward him handsomely with treasures, women, and citadels if he rejoins the fighting Told Achilles he should fight out of pity for his fellow soldiers who were massacred due to his absence if he hates Agamemnon too

The Great Achilles, great for his passion, skills in the art of war, however, something eerily stands of in his almost dominating, charismatic character. His wrath is that of none. The merciless Achilles, why? Why would the poet choose to focus on the wrath of Achilles more than anything in The Illiad? From his apparent distain towards Agamemnon, to his seething anger towards the Gods, leading to the gut-wrenching revenge inflicted upon Hector, it is clear as day that Achilles’s wrath is one of the

describes majority of the war that went on between the Greek and Trojan, which included the warriors Achilles and Hector. Throughout the poem the similarities and the differences became evident between the main characters, Achilles and Hector. Although Achilles and Hector are considered two different types of heroes, they had their similarities as much as they had their differences. Both Achilles and Hector were the greatest warriors of their armies, and both are very stubborn when it comes to their

Anger of Achilles “ANGER – sing, goddess, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus, that accursed anger, which brought the Greeks endless sufferings and sent the mighty souls of many warriors to Hades, leaving their bodies as carrion for the dogs and a feast for the birds; and Zeus’s purpose was fulfilled. It all began when Agamemnon lord of men and godlike Achilles quarrelled and parted” (Iliad 4). What is anger and how does it influence the body? Anger is a powerful emotion. If it isn’t handled appropriately

Iliad 21.70-135 (Lykaon supplicates Achilles, Achilles kills him) Consider Achilles’ response to supplication in this passage. How does this compare to his attitude in the extracts from the Iliad in your lecture/tutorial readings? The cruel rejection by Achilles to the supplication of Lykaon in Book 21 represents a fundamental transformation in the attitude of Achilles. Achilles has become full of anger and self-loathing following the death of Patroclus. Achilles answers Lykaon’s supplication by

the stories. In this particular epic, we encounter the characters of Achilles and Hector, both ideal warriors; one uses his physical aptitude, the other his intellect and desire to

Achilles Chris Erickson’s book titled The Poetics of Fear, states that there are disturbing conditions. The risk of inevitable destiny by nuclear holocaust has faded away, generally, just to be supplanted by a substantial gathering of more elusive, however no less deadly threats. Fear based persecution, affliction, revolt states, religious radicalism, environmental disaster, wrongdoing, money related crisis, disastrous occasion, all take a stab at our thought as the most startling prospect. (Erickson