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    The Hero of Troy

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    Astyanax‚ and he is the hero of troy because ; hector led the Trojan through the war ‚ sacrificed his life for the sake of troy even defended his brother and stood with him while he was the one that started the war ‚ hector faced and fought with the most power full warrior in Greek ‚never gave up on his country and people and he was loyal to them . When Hectors and his brother went to visit Sparta to negotiate peace between Sparta and troy ‚ Paris had seen Helen and he was enchanted by her beauty

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    Fall Of Troy

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    In book II of the Aeneid‚ Virgil depicts the fall of Troy as Aeneas tells his tale. Aeneas begins his story as the Greeks have constructed a giant horse. This was clearly an indication for the end of the war as there were no sign of the Greeks. However‚ this was a malicious trick by the Greeks as soldiers were in the hollow belly of the horse. At night‚ when the Trojans had fallen asleep‚ the Greek soldiers hidden in the horse came out‚ opened the gates‚ and gave the signal to the main army. Consequently

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    Helen

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    Helen In the poem‚ Helen by HD‚ the poet’s attitude toward Helen has a rejecting and negative tone. The title embodies hate by simply addressing Helen with just her name.The poem starts with‚ "All Greece hates the still eyes in the white face"‚ representing Helen as a statue‚ still memorialized for her beauty. "All Greece"‚ representing an entire population. The poet acknowledges her beauty in an unfortunate way. The second stanza states‚ "All Greece reviles the wan face when she smiles"

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    Fall of Troy

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    THE FALL OF TROY | | THE STORY of the Iliad ends with the death of Hector‚ and it is from the Odyssey and later poems that we learn the fate of the other heroes. After the death of Hector‚ Troy did not immediately fall‚ but receiving aid from new allies still continued its resistance. One of these allies was Memnon‚ the Æthiopian prince‚ whose story we have already told. Another was Penthesilea‚ queen of the Amazons‚ who came with a band of female warriors. All the authorities attest their

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    Women of Troy Essay

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    ancient Greeks the Siege of Troy was the greatest and most important event in the Age of Heroes; that age of wonder when the Immortals who dwelt on Olympus and whom they worshipped as gods‚ mingled with mankind and took a visible part in their affairs. The end of Troy marks the place where legend ends and history begins (Green‚ 11). The line between fantasy and reality is sometimes difficult to grasp‚ leaving historians questionable of the actualities of the battle of Troy‚ better yet the women. This

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    Troy Analysis

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    TROY Film Analysis by: Dianne Lim Federis Wolfgang Peterson tackles the job of bringing the epic of Homer’s The Iliad to the big screen in his film Troy. Iliad being a lengthy text‚ it is impossible to include every detail in a movie. Therefore‚ there are obvious deviations from the book such as the length of the Trojan War‚ and the absence of celestial participation in the war. There is also an absence of mortal female characters such as Chryseis‚ Hecuba‚ and Cassandra in the movie. In contrast

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    Helen and Menelaus

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    Name- Helen of Troy: Tyndareus was her earthly father; Daughter of Zeus and Leda Attribute or defining characteristic- Helen is best known for being the most beautiful woman. She was considered “the face that launched the thousand ships” and was also married to the King of Sparta and they conceived five kids. Function/Significance in literature/culture- An allusion to Helen would signify her beauty. Her seizure was one of the causes to the Trojan War. Summary of Myth/Legend/Tale- When Helen

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    In her novel The Handmaid’s Tale‚ Margret Atwood uses symbolism to illustrate the handmaid’s role in the society of Gilead. The handmaids are the women who had broken law of Gilead‚ and were forced into the role of a surrogate mother for a higher ranking couple. The handmaids had no rights or free will. They were under constant surveillance and this caused them to be very cautious. The author characterizes most handmaids as a tentative and distrustful‚ which is perhaps why Offred never puts in words

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    Helen in Iliad

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    HELEN:"CAUSA BELLE and VICTIM OF WAR". Homer creates Helen as a complex and suffering figure with a good mind‚ who strives for autonomy‚ expression‚ and belonging‚ within and despite the many constraints to which she is subject.Helen appears in only six encounters in the Iliad‚ with a different audience in each. As the encounters progress‚ she reveals more and more aspects of her personality and becomes increasingly assertive‚ increasingly her own person‚ and increasingly a part of the

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    Troy and the Iliad

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    The movie Troy and the epic poem‚ the Iliad‚ reveal distinct differences and similarities in several scenes such as when Achilles learns of his fate but still decides to go to war; which is a similarity‚ and two other scenes which are differences that concern the length of the war and the other is the role of the gods in the story. In both the movie and the book Thetis‚ Achilles’ mother tells him of his fate which is that if he sails for Troy he will earn glory and fame but his life will be cut

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