Andromache

HELEN:"CAUSA BELLE and VICTIM OF WAR". Homer creates Helen as a complex and suffering figure with a good mind, who strives for autonomy, expression, and belonging, within and despite the many constraints to which she is subject.Helen appears in only six encounters in the Iliad, with a different audience in each. As the encounters progress, she reveals more and more aspects of her personality and becomes increasingly assertive, increasingly her own person, and increasingly a part of the

Even as his wife Andromache pleads “Pity me, please! Take your stand on the rampart here before you orphan your son and make your wife a widow” (Iliad VI. 511-512) to persuade him to stay at home, he chooses kleos over his family. Hector is described by Helen far differently

who was the greatest of all the Greek warriors, slew Hector, a Trojan hero, during the war in the Aeneid and was the tragic hero of the Iliad. Hector was also used as a parallel figure to Turnus, who also defended his native city to the death. Andromache, Hector’s wife, survived the siege of Troy. She meets Aeneas on his journey, tells him her story, and advises his course to Italy. Paris was a Trojan prince, and the brother to Hector. He was asked by Venus, Juno, and Minerva to make a judgement

proper burial which Achilles does for all his victims in the war is a heroic action. Since burial is a very important thing for both Achaeans and Trojans, the families of the dead ones were able to appreciate Achilles’ respect for the dead people. Andromache says of Achilles attack on her father: “He killed him, but, reverent at least in this, did not spoil him. Body, gear, and weapon forged so handsomely, he burned, and heaped a barrow over the ashes. Elms were planted round by mountain-nymphs of him

act surely would have upset Euripides' largely religious audience, who would not have condoned such immorality, regardless of the circumstances. Euripides uses this same literary device to evoke pathos when he describes the death of Astyanax. When Andromache is first informed of her baby son’s fate, she cries out, “Why hold me with your hands so fast, cling so fast to me? You little bird, flying to hide beneath my wings” (Euripides 64). By creating an image of a little child, hardly developed beyond

Literal works has a great influence on many people, this influence inspired many readers and writers through their work of art. We have John Donne for example which became a literal canon by T.S. Elliot, giving him a great influence on countless generations before and others yet to come, as well Michael Longley and we can tell the great influence from the Iliad by Homer upon his writings, which had a great effect on so many of us, even the new Greek generations uses his poems such as “Cease Fire”

knowingly putting himself in great danger and in the hands of death. Hector’s family, his wife and his son, are his other primary motivation in fighting. It is evident that he loves them both very much by the dialogue he shares with his wife, Andromache, before he leaves Troy for the last time. Although she asks him not to leave her widowed and her son orphaned, his pride overshadows her pleas: “But I would die of shame to face the men of Troy And the Trojan women trailing their long robes If

Book Four of The Iliad ends after Athena coaxed a Trojan archer to fire at the Achaeans. The transgression prompts a fervent battle following what could have been a truce between the two sides. Succeeding the outbreak of war, Athena bestows to her chosen hero, Diomedes, the “strength and courage that would make him shine among the Greeks and win him glory” (pg. 83). Diomedes goes forth to slaughter the Trojans in battle, instilling distress in their hearts. With this depiction of Diomedes, Homer

The Elevation and Diminishment of Wartime Men War affects men physically, emotionally, and mentally. In Homer’s The Iliad, war is presented as something that both elevates and diminishes men. This is contradictory to what Homer is profusely trying to get across through his depiction of war, which is that there are no winners. He presents this idea of war being a losing situation by humanizing the enemy, instead of following the pattern of most epic poems and presenting the Greeks as omnipotent heroes:

David started to flourish right now, and he was chosen to the Académie Royale in 1784 on the heels of his "Andromache Mourning Hector.” In 1787, David showed "Demise of Socrates." after two years, in 1789, he disclosed "The Lictors Bringing to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons." At this point, the French Revolution had started, and, in this way, this depiction of Brutus—the