the poem. The gods intervene in the life of the mortals‚ engineering the mortal’s fate. The Greek gods showed both remorse and anger towards the mortals. The deeds of the people are watched over by the gods from Olympus. As Agamemnon‚ the king of Mycenae‚ dishonors the request of the priest Chyses‚ he angers the god of light‚ Apollo. Chryses‚ the priest of Apollo‚ prayed to Apollo to have Agamemnon pay for the “priests tears”‚ and Apollo who heard his prayers sends death upon the Achaeans. “He came
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A.P. History Guided Reading 3 The Mediterranean and Middle East Terms: 1. 1. Iron Age– the period generally occurring after the Bronze Age‚ marked by the prevalent use of iron. 2. Mass deportation– the expulsion of a person or group of people from a place or country 3. Hebrew– West Semitic language of the Afro-asiatic language family. 4. Ten Commandments– Decalogue‚ are a set of biblical principles relating to ethics and worship‚ which play a fundamental role in Judaism 5. “Children of
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Speech – KTsekenes -Turkey- To the international court‚ we request that the famed “treasure of Priam” currently held in the Pushkin Museum of Moscow‚ Russia be returned to its rightful owners‚ Turkey. The treasure was excavated by Heinrich Schliemann on the 31st of May 1883 at Hissarlik in North West Turkey. This site is also known as the site of ancient Troy. Schliemann did not originally have a permit at the time to excavate and subsequent agreements that followed between Schliemann and
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and the governance of the universe‚ controlled to some extent by Fate as well. Helps the Trojans. K. Poseidon- god of the sea‚ son of Cronus and Rhea‚ younger brother of Zeus. Switches between Acheans and Trojans. L. Agamemnon- Achaean‚ king of Mycenae‚ son of Atreus‚ husband of Clytemnestra‚ brother of Menelaus‚ supreme commander of all Achaea’s armies and leader of the largest Achaean
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Tension between an individual and life experiences is what creates interest in the poetry of William Butler Yeats. To what extent does this statement reflect your response to Easter 1916 and at least one other Yeats poem set for study Yeats derives his poetic strength from the fusion of his life experiences and his perspective of the world. The tension in the poetry is deeply rooted in the troubled political context of his time and the personal disappointment he suffered throughout his life. He
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Hercules or Herakles is best known as the strongest of all mortals‚ and even stronger than many of the gods. Hercules was a demi-god which was a half god half mortal. His father was the god Zeus and his mother was a mortal woman named Alcmene. When Hera found out that her husband’s mistress was having a baby‚ she became very jealous and mad. She was so mad that when Hercules was born‚ Hera sent two snakes to kill him in his crib. However‚ Hercules was too strong for the snakes and strangled them
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located in the North West coasts of Anatolia (Turkey) was a suspected candidate for the city of Troy. The city name was not only translated by linguist Professor Hawkins to be ‘Troy’ but was also mentioned in letters between Ahhiyawa (thought to be Mycenae) and the Hittites as the site of a long-standing feud between the two. The location of Wilusa and the political tensions surrounding it suggests that conflict between the Hittites and Ahhiyawa may have been the ten year war described in The Iliad
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Dramatic Irony – Dramatic irony is one the most crucial elements in an ancient Greek tragedy. It is a format used in many of Aeschylus‚ Euripides‚ and Sophocles plays. Usually the tragedy will begin with a monologue from a character or the chorus telling the audience what will happen. When the events unfold to be true a sense of irony unveils. An awesome example of irony is in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon. Cassandra has prophetic powers; however‚ the Chorus does not listen to and understand anything she
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Introduction The gods‚ as presented in Homer’s Iliad‚ present a variety of difficulties for the critic. In their style and highly anthropomorphous form‚ they lack close parallels in earlier cultures‚ and compared to the gods of monotheistic religions seem petty‚ small-minded‚ and unworthy‚ perhaps‚ of veneration. Moreover‚ their role as a literary device is highly contested; some authors‚ assign to them the function of comedy and light relief‚ their actions affording a hiatus from the intense fighting
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1.course introduction 2.The Chronology of Greek hx BC (before Christ) 3000 2000 1000 480_______/AD (year of our Lord latin)_________2013 1/1 7000-3000 Neolithic/New stone age-- 3000-2100 Early bronze age 2100-1600 Middle bronze age 1600-1200 late bronze age 1200-750/700 Dark age/Iron age (1200 about troy timeline) writing reemerges in the 700-800 getting out of the dark ages. 750/700-480 Archaiac period (ends with persion destruction of athens) 480-323 Classical period
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