poem‚ the Iliad. This work is generally credited to the Ancient Greek poet named Homer. Both the film and the poem have the same ending plots‚ such as the blockade of Troy by the Greeks‚ the disagreement between the warrior Achilles and the king Agamemnon and these actions started when the prince of Troy Paris who took the wife king Menelaus of Sparta with him. However there are many main differences related to these plots. These differences include some very major characters dying in the Iliad and
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century milieu. The characterization‚ the story line‚ the plot are all reflective of the ancient traditions‚ only the names and sequence have been modified intentionally. The back ground Trojan War is replaced by the American Civil War. O’Neill’s Agamemnon is Ezra Mannon‚ a hard unbending New Englander‚ who has been off to the Mexican War in his youth‚ who has studied law‚ been a skipper‚ achieved great success in business and served as Mayor of the small town in which his family is outstanding. His
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After Paris‚ a Trojan prince‚ convinces Helen‚ the Queen of Sparta‚ to leave her husband Menelaus and come back with him to Troy a war is started. When Menelaus finds out his wife has been taken by Trojans he asks his brother Agamemnon to help him get his wife back. Agamemnon wants power so he decides to help his brother. They take 1‚000 ships and 50‚000 Greeks to Troy to complete their task. With Achilles’’ help the Greeks are able to fight the Trojans that have not once been conquered. But they
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James Hutchinson Ms. Spicer AP Literature 20 August 2010 Homer’s Timeless Truths Is Homer’s The Iliad relevant to today’s society? Is this work a timeless parable depicting universal human truths transcending time and context or merely a superbly-crafted epic poem to be studied and admired for its stylistic brilliance? Has the text endured simply because of Homer’s dramatic verse or because of the timeless human truths it conveys? Was it written to persuade readers to question the moral implications
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dishonoring the priest and the god he serves. Agamemnon further dishonors Achilles by taking from him his spoils. Achilles then refuses to fight‚ indirectly causing the deaths of thousands of soldiers. As already stated‚ the Greek society is one of community and of the republic‚ but so often men are too intently focused on their individual honor rather than to attain honor for the greater good. Menelaus would rather go to war than to see his honor diminished. Agamemnon would rather incur the wrath of an immortal
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existence as possessions is established in Book 1.3 Most of the book concerns two quarrels over the possession of women taken in wartime. The first is over Chryseis‚ whom Agamemnon had taken in battle and initially refuses to return to her father in exchange for ransom. The second‚ between Agamemnon and Achilles‚ erupts when Agamemnon is compelled to return Chryseis and‚ in compensation for his loss‚ appropriates Briseis from Achilles. Briseis‚ for her part‚ had been given to Achilles as a "geras"
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WRİTTEN BY CMA Roles of Women In The Stories The stories depending on great love are generally seems a charming narration for readers and listeners.And also women used in the such stories are generated with sensous motifs.However‚we can confortably realize that roles of women in the most known two ancient stories‚The Epic of Gilgamesh and The Illiad‚are considerably different.While these texts lack a female love interest‚erotic love
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them‚ or sent Brothers or emissaries to do so for them” During the contest‚ Castor and Pollux had a prominent role in dealing with the suitors‚ although the final decision was in the hands of Tyndareus. Menelaus did not come but sent his brother‚ Agamemnon to represent him and put him in the running. Odysseus said that before the decision was made all the suitors should swear an oath to defend the chosen husband against whoever should fight with him. After the suitors had sworn to defend‚ Menelaus
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Shakespeare and Masculine Hegemony The sociological notion that the hierarchy of society is habitually patriarchal‚ an idea formally named “masculine hegemony”1‚ is influenced by literature beginning as early as the Medieval times and remains unchallenged until the appearance of the works of William Shakespeare in the heat of the English Renaissance. Masculine hegemony as a concept arises from the prison writings of Marxist scholar Antonio Gramsci meanwhile he was imprisoned within a fascist
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Euripides and Sophocles wrote their own versions of the Electra story. The basic plot is as follows: Agamemnon is killed by Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus after he returns from the Trojan war to reclaim his sister-in-law Helen from the Trojans. Electra and her brother Orestes plot to kill their mother and her lover to revenge his death. Both authors wrote about the same plot‚ but the built the story very differently. Sophocles focused on Orestes‚ and Euripides focused more on the
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