Troy Polamalu

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running around, going to school, and playing football from elementary to college, and with music in the background and progressively becoming more intense, Tomlinson is on that final stage, given the football by his teammate, running, and is tackled by Polamalu. A flashback to their childhood is presented as the boys fall back on their beds laughing. We return to present day with the referee blowing his whistle. Both players get up, and Nike‘s phrase “Leave Nothing” appears, they congratulate one another

The first person in The Iliad that can be considered god-like is Trojan prince Hector. He is also a commander on the Trojan side, and he truly the greatest Trojan warrior. The character of this Trojan hero is dynamic and changes throughout the book. At the beginning of the book he acts like a great warrior should. He is the most brave out of all the Trojans. Hector leads his army and never fails. In the later part of the book we see Hector as a brave warrior but we are also introduced to his other

the city-state of Troy once existed. Troy existed in Anatolia, where modern day Turkey stands, having a language associated with the Hittites, Troy 's allies. The Trojans were able to escalate to power based on the physical location of Troy. Troy had a windy climate and lots of advantages compared to other city-states such as lots of animals, luscious woods, grain, grasslands, plentiful fresh water, and fish that had the population prosper. The Trojan War was fought between Troy and its allies, the

Homer once said, “Two urns on Jove 's high throne have ever stood, the source of evil one, and one of good; from thence the cup of mortal man he fills, blessings to these, to those distributes ills; to most he mingles both. What the great philosopher is establishing is that the source of good and evil are the same while being different. Reminiscent of how The Iliad and the Aeneid are both epic poems that share similarities such as the setting, the reoccurring motif of gods, as well as aspects like

John V. Luce from Trinity College, Dublin, presented the results from an investigation they had made into the geology of Troy that began in 1977. The geologists compared present geology with the landscapes and coastal features described by Homer in the Illiad and other classical sources. They came to the conclusion that there is a regular consistency between the location of Troy as Hisarlik, the geological evidence and the topography and accounts of battles described in the Iliad. Historians The

The concept of human agency is nonexistent throughout the books in the Iliad. Well, at least it seems that way. The gods constantly intervene and change the fates of certain warriors and events as they please, “…but Aphrodite snatched Paris away.” (3.439) this shows Aphrodite carrying Paris away before he is about to die by the hands of Menelaus, thus changing Paris’ fate. However, there are parts in the epic that show signs of free will. There is a place in the Iliad where human agency does exist

The Iliad, written by ancient Greek poet Homer, chronicles the battle and events during the final weeks of The Trojan War, an armed conflict between the Achaeans army and the defenders of Troy. It further recounts the story of the wrath of Achilles, the greatest warrior in the Greek army, against King Agamemnon who unfairly appropriates Briseis, the lovely maiden belonging to Achilles after relinquishing his own maiden, Chryseis, in order to end the plague sweeping the Greek armies. Infuriated by

Now it was clear that Troy was one of the larger Anatolian cities of the period during which we would place the Trojan War. Korfmann dig found several important things about Troy which helped prove that Homer could be true. They believe that Troy appears to have been destroyed around 1180 B.C., probably by a war the city lost. There is evidence of a fire, some skeletons, and heaps of

This short essay will identify five traditional epic characteristics that are evident in both the Iliad and the Odyssey. The first epic characteristic evident in both epics is catalogs and genealogies. For instance, Book VIII of the Odyssey features a list of participants in the game (115-125) and the Iliad Book II features a catalog of ships (484-759). Secondly, both epics start in media res. The Odyssey starts ten years after the Trojan War and the Illiad starts nine years after the start of the