How does the shield of Achilles relate to Achilles crisis with the heroic ethos ...?
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The 'Shield of Achilles' depicts the entirety of the Homeric world, but more importantly, the City at War and the City at Peace.\n\nThese representations also relate to Achilles' two differing fates described by his immortal mother: Leave the Trojan siege and lead a long, but uneventful life in the City at Peace or stay at Troy (City at War), acquiring glory, honor, and immortality(warrior ethos), but dying shortly thereafter on the battlefield.\n\nPatroklos' death was the catalyst in which Achilles' divine-like rage overwhelmed all considerations of the mortal world including the heroic ethos. Achilles' desire for revenge could only lead him to the City at War.
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please do not keep in mind the war of troy movie!believe me there are a lot of things wrong there and i can be sure of that as i am greek.Achilleas was son of the nymphe Thetis.he was imortal but with one mortal point on his body,his heal!wen he was a baby thetis hold him from his heal over the fire of imortality so that is why his heal was the only point that if he was injured he could die and that was the reason of his death.his war equipments was a gift from god ifestus the god of fire.
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Yes, it's incredibly difficult to read & I didn't enjoy it. Admittedly, I used Cliff Notes to help me.\n\nBook summaries\nBook 1: Ten years into the war, Achilles and Agamemnon quarrel over a slave girl, Achilles withdraws from the war in anger \nBook 2: Odysseus motivates the Greeks to keep fighting; Catalogue of Ships, Catalogue of Trojans and Allies \nBook 3: Paris challenges Menelaus to single combat \nBook 4: The truce is broken and battle begins \nBook 5: Diomedes has an aristea and wounds Aphrodite and Ares \nBook 6: Glaucus and Diomedes greet during a truce, Hector returns to Troy \nBook 7: Hector battles Ajax \nBook 8: The gods withdraw from the battle \nBook 9: Agamemnon retreats: his overtures to Achilles are spurned \nBook 10: Diomedes and Odysseus go on a spy mission \nBook 11: Paris wounds Diomedes, and Achilles sends Patroclus on a mission \nBook 12: The Greeks retreat to their camp and are besieged by the Trojans \nBook 13: Poseidon motivates the Greeks \nBook 14: Hera helps Poseidon assist the Greeks \nBook 15: Zeus stops Poseidon from interfering \nBook 16: Patroclus borrows Achilles' armour, enters battle, kills Sarpedon and then is killed by Hector \nBook 17: The armies fight over the body and armour of Patroclus \nBook 18: Achilles learns of the death of Patroclus and receives a new suit of armour \nBook 19: Achilles reconciles with Agamemnon and enters battle \nBook 20: The gods join the battle; Achilles tries to kill Aeneas \nBook 21: Achilles fights with the river Scamander and encounters Hector in front of the Trojan gates \nBook 22: Achilles kills Hector and drags his body back to the Greek camp \nBook 23: Funeral games for Patroclus \nBook 24: Achilles lets Priam have Hector's body back, and he is burned on a pyre \n[edit]\nAfter the Iliad: the end of the war and the returns home\nAlthough certain events subsequent to the funeral of Hector are foreshadowed in the Iliad, and there is a general sense that the Trojans are doomed, a detailed account of the fall of Troy is not set out by Homer. The following account comes from later Greek and Roman poetry and drama.\n\nAchilles fights and kills the Amazon queen Penthesilea and the Aethiopean king Memnon. Very soon he is killed on the battlefield by Paris with a poisoned arrow to his vulnerable heel. (See Achilles' Heel). After his death, Ajax and Odysseus feud over who should keep his armour. They submit their disagreement to an impromptu court and Odysseus is awarded the armour. Ajax subsequently goes mad and slaughters his livestock, believing they are the Greek commanders. He then kills himself in shame.\n\nThe Amazons come to join the battle. Philoctetes, a crippled Greek who had been abandoned by the others along the journey, was recruited by the god Heracles because it was prophesied the war could not be won without his bow.\n\nOdysseus devises a plan to take the city. He has his men build a large, hollow wooden horse, and then he and twenty others hide inside. The Greek ships withdraw out of sight of Troy, apparently admitting defeat, and leave behind the horse, purportedly as an offering to Poseidon for good winds on the return trip. The Trojans take this inside the great walls of Troy, and then feast and celebrate their victory and the war's end. At night, Odysseus and the soldiers creep out of the horse and open the gates to the other Greeks who have sailed back under cover of night. The city is sacked, and in some accounts burned for seven years.\n\nPriam is killed. According to one tradition, Hector's wife Andromache throws their son Astyanax and herself from the ramparts to save them from slavery. According to another, Astyanax was killed by Neoptolemus, son of Achilles, to ensure that Hector's son could not seek vengeance for his father's death against Achilles' son. Andromache became Neoptolemus' concubine, later to marry Helenus, Hector's brother. A Roman tradition held that Aeneas escaped wi
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Your quoted text is not a question, it is a statement. \n\nIf you have read the text, then you should know you are being asked to elucidate the trials and conflicts of each of those "heroes," and to show how each becomes a character worthy of notice, of the title "hero."
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Homer was a male. But he was not a god. He was a poet. Read Greek history and you'll find out all about him.
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The Iliad\nhttp://pd.sparknotes.com/lit/iliad/\n\nThe Odyssey\nhttp://pd.sparknotes.com/lit/odyssey/
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the Iliad by Homer-thats aslo what the movie "Troy" is based on.
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The legend of Prometheus is a symbol of bravery - it is similar to many tales in The Bible, including the crucifiction. \n\nIn short, Prometheus stole the secret of fire from the Gods, he gave the fire to the people so that they could see at night and cook their food.\nWhen he was found out, the Gods hung him from a cliff where a bird would fly by every day and eat out his spleen.\nThis was to go on for eternity but he was "resurrected" by Zeus' son because the people regarded him as a hero. Some texts conclude that Zeus' son also had a "great love and admiration" for Prometheus. Take that as you will.\n\nSome believe that we began wearing rings and bracelets to remind ourselves of the bondage of Prometheus.
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My great-aunt once wrote an entire book about Greek mythology in a sort of story-telling form. It was a very informative book, and it helped me stay aware of Greek and Roman references more often. People (including me) often speak of the weather as being "hotter than Hades" as a more polite way of saying "hotter than hell." Hades was the Greek god of the underworld, which would be compared to a Christian concept of hell. Companies still use these references even today in shoes (like Nike), sporting equipment, technological equipment, flowers (think FTD Florist using Hermes as their symbol), and cleaning supplies (think Ajax). As an English major, I wrote at least two poems with mythological references. I love the musical "My Fair Lady" which is related to "Pygmalion" and the old myth of the man who created his ideal woman. If you watch Disney's "Monsters Inc." there is one part where the little one-eyed monster Mike is contemplating how to smuggle the little girl Boo back into the company, and he uses a Greek reference to the Trojan horse, but dismisses it as "Too Greek!" Children would probably not understand what he said, but those of us who have studied mythology would. I do not use mythology as a replacement for religion, but it helps to understand historical references and symbolism around us.
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Most heros of greek tragedy are anti-heros in that sense.  They are human. They let their weaknesses take lead in their lives and then suffer for that.
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Greek mytholigy\nthe story was pased down but Homer was the 1st person to put it in writting so he was given credit
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One of the basic themes in ancient greek tragedy is that the life threads of human beings are controlled by the gods.\nHecabe ~ Antigone: importance of burial; centrality of family relationships\nAntigone: personal/family relationships (Polyneices as brother) cross with social/political relationships (Polyneices as enemy of city). \nWomen as victims - Antigone, Polyxena, Hecabe (though n.b. context of male/male violence)\nMale antagonists - Creon, Polymestor\nMale victims of female violence: Polymestor, Heracles - in the latter case, the female is a goddess. \nfriendship vs enmity, loyalty vs betrayal in Heracles-Philoctetes, Greeks-Philoctetes\nethics\nlove\nloss\npride\nabuse of power
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When in doubt, use Wikipedia!\n\nIn Greek mythology, Nike (Greek Νίκη, pronounced /'nike/ "NEE-keh", meaning "Victory") , was a goddess who personified triumph. She was a daughter of Pallas (Warrior) and Styx (Hatred), and the sister of Cratos (Strength), Bia (Force), and Zelus (Rivalry). Nike and her siblings were all attendants of Zeus. According to myth, Styx brought them to Zeus when the god was assembling allies for the coming Titan War. Nike assumed the role of the god's personal charioteer, a role often portrayed in classical art. Her Roman counterpart is Victoria.\n\nWorship\nNike was often worshipped in conjunction with Athena, with whom Persians at the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC. The great statue of Athena Parthenos in the Parthenon in Athens is thought to have depicted Nike standing in the hand of Athena, and the Parthenon complex included a Temple of Athena Nike, built around 410 BC. The Athenians also dedicated a statue to Nike at Delphi. The statue of Zeus at Olympia reportedly also depicted Nike. On occasions, Athena was depicted with Nike's attributes. According to Pausanias, the statue of Athena Nike depicted a wingless Nike ("Nike Apteros"), supposedly so that the statue could never leave the city of Athens. This temple has also provided a famous surviving depiction of the goddess, Nike unfastening her sandal ("Nike Slancio"), which was originally part of the temple parapret and is now on display in the Acropolis Museum in Athens.\n\nModern usage\nNike also presided over athletic as well as military contests. It was this meaning that prompted designer Jeff Johnson, the first man that US footwear entrepreneur Phil Knight hired, to borrow her name for the company, Nike, Inc., the clothing and sportswear manufacturer. Johnson had a dream about the goddess and Knight liked the idea.\n\nAn image of Nike appears in all Summer Olympics medals. In 2004 for the 2004 Summer Olympics an image of the goddess appears in the Panathinaiko Stadium [1]. The Jules Rimet trophy is in the form of an octagonal cup supported by a winged figure representing Nike.\n\nThe United States Army also borrowed her name for its Project Nike surface-to-air missile programme.
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it probably relates to the greek horse which was a gift to the city of troy . . \n\nsolidiers were hidden in the horse and let the Greeks into the castle during the night, and the greeks eventually won the war.
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you can't compare them. Troy is the City-Kingdom where the Epic Iliad happened. \n\nYou may want to compare Iliad and Odyssey.  The first one chronicles the battle between Greeks and Trojans.  The second one tells of the story of Odysseus, after the Trojan War, and the dangers and adventures he met along the way.  Both epics were written, scholars say, by the blind poet Homer.
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I really really really love this question. I think you may just be right.They definitly have a greek/roman theme going. the god of love, the love carebear, grumpy carebear and the gods of war
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Hello again....\n\nI was always intrigued by the story of the Minotaur and the great Labrynth of Knossos....or was it Crete, nope that was the king, I believe....anyway, I digress...\n\nThe story of Perseus and Medusa also struck a chord - as a girl I was busting to have a horse just like Pegasus.\n\nThe first movie I ever went to see (that I remember) was Clash of the Titans and I don't think I ever got over the romance of it all......