Agamemnon

translates to mean “famous wooer”, Clytemnestra murders her husband after welcoming him home with false hospitality, thus demonstrating sick manipulation and an utter lack of loyalty and fidelity. Though this lack of integrity turns out hazardous for Agamemnon, it does display to the men of Greece that mortal women, who are not as highly respected as goddesses, are just as powerful while only using their mortal abilities. In particular, another woman who demonstrates predatory and manipulative…

The Iliad is not all about the Trojan war but several conflicts happening in the final weeks of the war. The two cities that come out are the City if Mycenae governed by Agamemnon and Troy city under Hector. The war between the towns is not due to the shortage of natural resources rather pride and vanity as each of the Kings tries to prove that they are the strongest. In the Iliad, the character and work of Achilles a great…

Persephone as throughout this whole time she had been disobeying and displeasing the Olympian gods, but still chose to be on the side of her daughter. Written by Aeschylus, Oresteia is a trilogy of Greek tragedies concerning the murder of the Greek hero Agamemnon by his wife Clytemnestra. The second and third play in the trilogy, Libation Bearers and Eumenides (respectively),…

dehumanizes both parties involved in the war. That force, which is the sun of the poem, is orbited by rage: Achilles’ incentive that triggers the conflicts of the story. The first instance that introduces the rage of Achilles is found in book one, when Agamemnon sends Talthybius and Eurybates to take Briseis, Achilles’ war prize, away from him. Achilles is so enraged by this that…

History of The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides and the Iliad by Homer are both timeless accounts of war that also analyze human nature. Both authors divulge their belief about what comprises human nature through the observation of war and its effect on morality. Homer and Thucydides agree that emotion, specifically compassion, is the key to a human life. However, the authors differ on their definition of compassion. Thucydides sees compassion as a natural emotion felt among equals while Homer…

A being who always needs it to be their own way or another is basically just showing how greedy they are. For example, in the beginning of the book, Achilles had decided to take action since Agamemnon would not. He called for an assembly of troops and upset the orders by doing this, he then attempted to withdrawal himself and the other troops from the Archean army (Homer, Book 1). He did this his own way, not by any orders from the commanders…

Kierkegaard highlights one important difference between the knight of infinite resignation and the night of faith: the knight of faith goes one step farther. In his own words, both kinds of people have passed though the mindset of the Aesthete into that of the Ethical and transcended by means of a leap of faith into the religious. Even the knight of faith experiences the view of the knight of infinite resignation, but he can move one step farther by virtue of the absurd. The knight of infinite…

In The Iliad and The Odyssey, Homer has strikingly different opinions on the roles that women play in each epic. The differences are so striking that some readers have argued that a woman could have possibly created The Odyssey, modeled after Homer’s Iliad. In The Iliad we see women as war prizes and slaves, vulnerabilities to men, and in positions of limited power. In The Odyssey however, we see women capturing men and keeping them as prizes, rising from a status of limited power to dominating…

hardships recurrently. Achilles gets disrespected by the leader of the Achaeans during the Trojan War. Odysseus is trapped on the island of the sea goddess Calypso. When Achilles’ prize woman gets stolen, he says to his mother: “For wide-ruling Agamemnon, Atreus’ son, has shamed me, has taken away my prize, appropriated it for his own use.”(The Iliad pg. ln.). He is in the middle of a war and all he is worried about is his prize. Countless Achaean soldiers are dying, because his feelings are…

Achilles is now in possession of the new armor that has been forged for him. Agamemnon and Achilles reconcile with each other at the pre-battle meeting that Achilles called. Before heading into battle, he allows his armies to eat. Achilles refuses to eat anything, since he has not yet slain Hector, but eventually has his stomach filled by Athena. This occurs after he sits near Patroclus reminiscing. Achilles enters the battle accepting his fate and ready to fight for his fallen friend. The Gods…