Essays on Iliad

Dante’s The Inferno and Homer’s The Iliad are two of the most influential pieces of literature around the world. Though they originate from different countries and written by different authors, they present to the readers the personal thought of the authors’ value system: Homer glorifying war and the heroes who partook on it; Dante emphasizing…

The Iliad is one of the most prized pieces of Western Literature because of the illustriousness of the narrative. The assortment of the Olympic Gods in Greek mythology offers a figure of different personalities. Unlike the conventional definition of an omnipotent. omniscient and benevolent of God. the Olympians had their ain personalities and acted based…

The gods were more involved in the Iliad than in the movie Troy. In the Iliad they manipulated people’s emotions, the weather, the outcomes of battle; they would disguise themselves to trick the characters into the move they wanted them to make, physically trip them up to give the opponent a better standing. In the…

A very important part of being a hero is having human qualities, particularly faults and shortcomings. At times these larger-than-life heroes can make very mortal, human mistakes; they are victims of fate and chances as well (Oedipus). At times, these mistakes have grave consequences (death in the most honorable cases). However, it is this element…

The Movie Helen of Troy The movie Helen of Troy shows the important details before and inside the book Iliad. This movie helps the readers to understand this book. Also, it shows how the Trojan war started and how Troy has fallen. Like in the book, because Helen was taken by Paris, the Achaeans demanded…

” Yet if somewhere I could only get some word of Aias of the great war cry, we two might go, and keep the spirit of battle even in the face of divinity, if we might win the body for Pelid Achilleus. It would be out best among evils.” Iliad Ch. 17 Ln.101-105 This is…