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true in ancient Greece. History has said that Athens is the place of freedom and democracy while Sparta is a restricted society. Though this might be true, that was not the case for women. Women in Homeric Greece and Sparta actually had more respect and freedom than those in Athens. Women in Homeric Society had more of a role than just bearing children and were treated with more respect based on Homer’s characters in his poems the Odyssey and Iliad like Penelope. Penelope the wife of Odysseus

As is already known, Homeric literature served as the model for educating Greek boys and young men, as well male Roman citizens later on in Antiquity. The passages of Homer and Hesiod instructed a decorum which defined proper behavior as unyielding bravery in the field of battle, and the continuous desire for besting an opponent through strident competition, or agon in the Greek. Achilles defined this part of heroic conduct, while Odysseus, through his renowned ability for persuasion, defined the

The Influence of Homeric Epic from Ancient Greece to Today Art is a mirror of reality. Art is also a part of reality, as surely as the mirror is part of the room it resides in and, no matter how distorted the image may be, it is just a reflection and still just as revealing. Neil Gaiman has referred to fiction as “the lie that tells the truth,” meaning that, while the finer points of a story are from one’s own imagination, there are deeper reflections about the human condition, life, and nature that

with not having a voice and hardly having any rights even when they were able to become citizens. In Homeric society, women were seen as a necessary evil that men had to deal with. Though Women in the Archaic Age gained the ability to gain property and citizenship. Taking care of the house while teaching the children and directing the servants was all in the days work for a woman throughout both Homeric and classical Greece. Religious events were a popular thing to go to because they were not allowed

play an essential part in Homeric society. Book 1 sees Telemachos’ interaction with his mother Penelope that is again repeated in a few more scenes, which put emphasis on gender role in an ideal Homeric society. However, book 7 reveals an action that goes against the principles of gender role during the interaction between Odysseus and Arete. While there exists complexity in the ways women are treated, whether by them being confined or by exercising minimal power, the Homeric society ultimately remains

The Homeric simile is a trademark of the epic poem. It describes an extended simile, which continues for lines on end, and the extended simile’s vehicle often describes multiple characteristics of its tenor (Cite Sharon Hamilton!). Homer uses the Homeric simile throughout The Iliad to describe the Trojan or Achaean people and/or army as a group. Yet, the Homeric simile also applies to an individual many times throughout the text, specifically, The Iliad’s protagonist: Achilles. Achilles is a complex

There were many characters introduced in The Iliad by Homer that could be labeled as Homeric heroes, but Hector of Troy could be identified as the best example of one. There were more examples of him meeting the Homeric hero criteria presented than any other character, such as his sense of personal honor, understanding of his destiny, and his intelligence. Hector egotistical, yes, but so was Achilles, a demi-god. Hector, a human, was so respected and admired that he obtained the reputation of a “god-like”

Homeric heroes in classics, such as the Iliad, possess similar qualities that are the criterion of what defines a hero. Characteristics, like honor and loyalty, in addition to an individual’s favoring by the gods, feats in battle, and fatal flaws are present in each hero. Therefore, when identifying an individual in one of Homer’s epics as a hero, it is essential that he possesses these traits. Patroclus is a keen example of an individual in the Iliad who is a hero. Within the Iliad, the term “hero”

compelling deduction is he was born in Ionia; the reasoning behind this is that the dialect that The Odyssey was written in is considered Ionic Greek (“Homer” 9). Whether he even existed is considered to be a great literary mystery — coined the “Homeric Question” (“Homer” 5). Nevertheless, he is said to be a bard

The Odyssey and The Penelopiad’s storyline are both based off the same social context as Homer recorded the epic poem during Homeric society (when he was alive) however when the story was composed the literary context is completely different in comparison to Atwood, as Atwood wrote her novella - The Penelopiad, in the 21’st century and homer recorded the epic poem during 8th C BCE. The difference between each time period meant there were societal differences which had different impacts on each of