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In five pages this essay examines Ulysses' argument to Achilles and his response to it as described in Book IX of 'The Iliad.' Th...
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 a paper consisting of 6 pages war and domesticity are examined within the context of these Homerian ethics particularly as they...
In 7 pages this paper considers the peace messages contained within this war stories' collection known as 'The Iliad.' There are ...
The fates of death or destruction could be explored in a dramatic structure, and how the protagonist elected to face his destiny, ...
Aspects of Homer's epic poem are analyzed in this paper that contains five pages. There are no other sources listed in the biblio...
be regarded as a historical document. There is very little certain about the poem itself or its author, who was supposedly a blin...
so "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey" are rare glimpses into the feminine status in what was essentially a strict Greek patriarchy. Wh...
is somber (tragic). "...In great works of art all levels in which interpretation can be pursued fruitfully probably remain in som...
the student works on this project, he or she will want to consider the ways in which the story deals with legendary events that ma...
In a more recent translation we note a great deal of anger and a powerful sense of revenge, as we see in the following excerpt fro...
(2) which struck the coup de grace" (Floyd ucla13.html). As we can see, although Hektor obviously killed Patroklos, he was just on...
how all true tragic heroes apply the same principle: by purging his sins in exchange for forgiveness from nature and the gods. He...
of the gods in these works appears to be more focused on generating chaos than introducing peace and tranquility to the universe. ...
original adventure stories; Indiana Jones has nothing on Odysseus, Achilles, Ajax and the rest of the characters who struggled on ...
this late hour / To save our army from these howling Trojans. / Think of yourself, of the regret you will feel / For harm that wil...
many as he can. If his own life is destroyed in the process, then that intrinsically establishes him as both a stellar leader and...
provoke me, she with her shrill abuse. Even now in the face of the immortal gods, she harries me perpetually, Hera charges me that...
Achilles grief offends the gods. Hera argues that since Achilles is the son of the a goddess, he deserves more honor than Hector,...
the world changed forever on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001, when Osama bin Ladens al-Qaeda terrorist network invaded ...
could live. It was on the broad shoulders of this classical hero upon which the security of society rested. While the hero walke...
facts" (Manley 55) which leads to the realization that there are also "no true biographies...about this very ancient Greek poet" (...
2009). During this incident, 32 inmates and 11 guards were killed. In 1980 there was a riot in a prison in New Mexico that took ...
This essay, first of all, considers the impact of recent media exposure in regards to domestic violence incidents and celebrities....
against women in curricular content; and working toward changing attitudes towards women that condone, or may encourage, acts of v...
In five pages issues connected to racial violence and racism are examined in terms of a description of various types, ethnic and c...
to real-world violence, and thereby less empathetic to the pain and suffering of others (Chidley 37). Observations of teenagers re...
In five pages the violence associated with ritual is examined in this comparative analysis of these stories by Kaplan and Jackson....
In five pages this paper references Primo Levi's The Drowned and the Saved in a consideration of how language is affected by viole...
claim the authors, can go a long way toward assisting response to those in need (Robinson and Chandek, 2000). The authors ...