Diomedes

The warriors of The Iliad are famed for their capacity for violence and fury; the poem often reading as a cascade of bloodshed, page after page narrating the countless deaths in the slaughter outside the walls of Troy. The rage of these warriors, and of course most of all Achilleus, seems insurmountable—who could possibly match their anger and strength? However, within the poem itself one creature finds itself at the forefront; its ferocity something beyond the heroes of the epic. This is the…

Helen is a symbol. She represents honor. She represents glory. She represents valor. By owning her, one owns all those things. She is only an object to both sides of the way. Their fighting will only cease when they are forced to cease from fighting, otherwise they will continue until they unarguably possess Helen and any other women they demand belongs to them. The possession of a woman valued as highly as Helen is necessary to assume that one possesses valor and other masculine virtues.…

In the Epic of Gilgamesh and the Iliad, friendship plays an integral transformative role. When Enkidu and Patroclus die, the surviving friends, Gilgamesh and Achilles become better people by exposing their vulnerability through the grieving process. This results in a lifelong transformation. This kind of everlasting friendship is also illustrated by Oeneus and Bellerophon,whose friendship lives on through their grandchildren,after their death. In this paper, I will claim that the Epic of…

Stretching all the way from the Bosporus Strait in the west to the Diomede Islands in the east, Asia is not only the planet's largest continent but also it's most populous with 4.4 billion people calling it home. Following Marco Polo’s epic tale of an overland journey to China in the late 1,200’s and the marvels he encountered upon the Silk Road before arriving at the great market in Peking , the Venetian travellers exploits spurred a new wave of explorers to find a safer, quicker way to the…

Hercules was one of the greatest heroes in greek mythology. Hercules was both the most famous hero of ancient times and the most beloved. More stories were told about him than any other hero. Hercules was worshipped in many temples all over Greece and Rome. He was the son of zeus and Alkmene, however, Amphitryon was his mortal father. This is because Alkmene is married to Amphitryon and they raised Hercules together. Hera is married to Zeus. Since Zeus fools around with many women, and the…

mortality evident in all books of Homers Illiad. In book 6 of The Iliad, a Homeric simile arises that compares the many deaths of the soldiers to leaves on trees and changing seasons. Glaucus, a man on the Trojan side, upon running into Achean member Diomedes compares the…

had 24 hours to complete this. The sixth labor was to shoot the crazy birds who ate people in the Stymphalian wetlands. Capturing the terrorizing bull that lived on the island of Crete was his seventh task. Eight, to catch man eating mares of King Diomedes at Bistones. Next, Hercules had to take the girdle of the queen of the Amazons, Hippolyte. (10) the capturing of the cattle of the three-bodied giant Geryon, who ruled the island Erytheia (meaning Red) in the far west; (11) the bringing back…

The religion of ancient Greece is unlike most religions that we have in modern society today, especially American society. This country was built on Christianity, and so imagining how the Greeks worked can be difficult. They had no sacred religious texts; the descriptions of their gods came from Homer’s and Hesiod’s works (Schironi, September 29). They were polytheistic and the lack of sacred texts led to syncretism, adding more gods from different places. The gods were immortal beings that…

The Iliad and the Old Testament play a significant role in American culture. Retailing of these stories has appeared in books, film, and other forms of media. The movie “Troy”, Hollywood’s version of the Greek poem, is an example of an old story that was told throughout the centuries retold to a modern audience, with some parts of the poem not being represented in the movie. The Old Testament of the Bible is also another story that is retold through the perspective of others. Used to influence…

The Trojan War (1226 BCE) also know as "The Bronze Age", where conflict began between the kingdoms of Troy and Mycenaean Greece. Men from Greece, well the best men and some women sailed all the way out to Asia to fight in the war for 10 years. Some say the Trojan War was consideed to be the greatest tragedy ever written. This essay will provide you with not only proof of the Trojan war but inform you as well. Most believed this war was fictional, and was just a myth of the Greeks but I'm here…