YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Supplication in The Iliad
Essays 121 - 150
more day and this is granted. Jason lamely agues that his abandonment of her and their children is for the best. After formulating...
original adventure stories; Indiana Jones has nothing on Odysseus, Achilles, Ajax and the rest of the characters who struggled on ...
This paper discusses the argument between Achilles and Agamemnon from a political perspective. Three pages in length, two sources ...
This essay answers three question. The first pertains to the arguments presented to Achilles on why he should fight, the second li...
the woman to his commander, but withdraws from the battlefield, refusing to fight in retaliation for the humiliation imposed upon ...
this late hour / To save our army from these howling Trojans. / Think of yourself, of the regret you will feel / For harm that wil...
which the argument that arises between the Greek heroes, Achilles and Agamemnon. The poem begins roughly ten years into the war an...
Oedipus. He learned that his predecessor and his wifes late husband, King Laius, had been murdered, Oedipus contends that it shou...
of mortal men exceeding fair" (18.490). The image of "two cities" mirrors the basic plot of the Iliad, which is a ten-year-long ...
many as he can. If his own life is destroyed in the process, then that intrinsically establishes him as both a stellar leader and...
Two characters from each of Homer's epics are compared in five pages in order to ascertain which is the most heroic of the charact...
the weak and defender of his territory and do whatever he must in the name of survival. A ravenous Odysseus is described by Homer...
In 8 pages this paper contrasts and compares how warfare is ideologically presented in each classical work. There are no other so...
In 6 pages this paper analyzes how women's roles in these works by Homer reflect the cultural perceptions of women in ancient Gree...
leader, Hector (son of King Priam), he kills in single combat. The poem closes as Achilles surrenders the corpse of Hector to Pria...
Homer's and Virgil's works are compared and contrasted. This research report suggests that various trends for each of these works....
second is the code of Honor that prevails for both sides. The issues of courage, the sanctity of marriage and friendship and the h...
on Mount Olympus, where the gods lived. As the Iliad opens, the Trojan War has actually been going on for nine years, but the figh...
In five pages this paper compares these two works in terms of wartime reality portrayals. Two sources are cited in the bibliograp...
In eight pages this paper discusses the epic's glorification of violence in an analysis that also considers gender roles, human na...
In seven pages with a Roman numeral outline of one page also included this paper analyzes how symbolism is used to thematically po...
In this paper containing four pages Achilles and Hektor are compared and it is determined that while Hektor's tragedy is synonymou...
bow rang death as he shot his arrow in the midst of them. First he smote their mules and their hounds, but presently he aimed his ...
In five pages the importance and symbolism of the shield of Achilles is considered in this examination of Homer's epic....
In five pages this paper examines how the epic represents Achilles' shield in a consideration of what its importance symbolizes....
In five pages Homer's poetic epic is examined in a consideration of the significance of the armor worn by Achilles and the effects...
In five pages this paper compares the heroes Hector and Achilles as presented in Homer's epic in an evaluation of whose heroism wa...
In five pages the epic's final chapter is analyzed with the banquet scene and its significance thoroughly considered....
In five pages these epic war tales are examined in a heroic contrast and comparison of Roland and Achilles. Three sources are cit...
In five pages these poetic works are examined in terms of the portrayal of Homer in each. There are 3 sources cited in the biblio...