In The Odyssey‚ Homer uses figurative language the best to build characterization while using epic similes and metaphors to go into more detail about traits and evets. One of the main uses of figurative language homer uses to build characteristics is an epic smile This is proven when homer writes "The attackers struck like eagles…swooping down from a mountain ridge to harry smaller birds that skim across the flatland cringing under the clouds but the eagles plunge in fury‚ rip their lives out…never
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least. King Priam respected his wife Hecabe to the extent of asking her for advice before he left to meet Achilles. Paris listened to Helen and in spite of her constant outburst and even wishing him defeat and death; he still tolerated and kept her (Homer‚ Iliad 6‚
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hero‚ not only in Homer ’s time but in the 21st century as well. Yet these archetypal heroic qualities are not his only heroic qualities‚ in order to win his battles and find his way home he needed to display other qualities such as cunning‚ shrewdness‚ and ingenuity. The early part of The Odyssey concerns Telemakhos and his journey. In Sparta at the court of Menelaos and Helen‚ Telemakhos learns of the bravery of his father; " and how he fought through hardship for my sake" (Homer IV 176-177). More
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his justification of good and evil. But what really makes a hero? The Greeks had a well-specified idea of what attributes a hero needs. In the epic poem‚ The Odyssey‚ Homer provides insight in the Ancient Greek civilization’s concept of a hero as one who possesses bravery and intelligence‚ yet also flaws. Primarily‚ Homer does an amazing job demonstrating the bravery of heroes that the Greeks praised. The main character‚ Odysseus‚ has an established reputation as a well-experienced warrior
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..in that matter of Wilusa over which we were at enmity." Despite the continuing debate‚ the literary and archaeological evidence indicates that there was a Trojan War. The reality of this war however‚ was not the epic conflict as narrated by Homer‚ but more likely part of an ongoing enmity between the Mycenaean ’s and the Hittites. Troy was a wealthy city‚ well placed at the mouth of the Hellespont in the north west corner of Anatolia to be of vital strategic and commercial importance. Unfortunately
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society conditions and the civilization of that history period. Homer; the authors of The Iliad and The Odyssey; and Vergil; the authors of The Aeneid are two of the greatest writers in ancient western civilization. There are heroes in these three literatures to reflect the society and culture: Achilles‚ Odysseus and Aeneid. The Iliad and the Odyssey are two of the oldest ancient literatures by Homer in around 8th century B.C. (Homer‚ 2012). According to Redfield (1975)‚ “the culture portrayed
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The Odyssey by Homer encompasses a rather modern idea of women and their role for its time. Homer portrays women as creatures who are strong but are ultimately defeated. It is true that in most stories they are portrayed as being weaker‚ but the women in this poem are oddly strong or have a very strong presence. The three main examples are Calypso‚ Athena‚ and the Lotus Flower. Each of these examples has a predominant presence in The Odyssey making them sturdy objects. At first the goddess Calypso
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People‚ and whether or not Homer wrote from experience‚ personal knowledge‚ or whether he wrote these splendid works based on loosely constructed cultural myths about the events. Clearly there must be an element of truth in some of what Homer wrote. At the same time it must be acknowledged that much of the story that comes to us in the Iliad is largely fictionalized. How can it not be? Homer was not present at the Trojan War. Instead‚ as it was suggested by Herodotus‚ Homer lived four hundred years
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Commodificationin the Iliad The Theme of commodification in the Iliad is highly important in the Iliad. Homer was against the idea of making the as a commodity. Homer’s Iliad is an excellent example of the suppressive role of women at this time. Women were treated merely as property and were used for producing material within the household. They are depicted as being inferior to men both physically and intellectually. The Iliad began with an argument between Achilles and Agamemnon over Briseis
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Homer Do you think you could compose two great works of art? Well Homer did. He was the composer of the Llaid and the Odyssey. Many places claim to be his birth place. People also think that he didn’t write the Odyssey or the Llaid by his self. The oldest version of the Llaid is inside St. Marks church in Venice‚ a hand written manuscript (James Lloyd 1). The poems were first organized‚ complied‚ and edited under the Athenian Pisistratus. The first printed editions of Homer were in 1488
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