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The Iliad
The Iliad is an epic poem written by Homer. In the poem, the Trojan War in Greece is being fought. The combatants of the war are the Greeks and the Trojans. Any questions regarding the Trojan Horse can also be place here.
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HISTORICAL fiction. There is some basis in fact; There was a city named Troy, there was a war between some of the Greek city-states and Troy. Troy was destroyed at the end of the War.
How was the Trojan war described in The Iliad?
As a war involving not only Achaean and Trojan warriors, but also gods and and fabled characters, some such as Ajax who was long since dead.
What was Odysseus' trick to avoid the greek army?
preteneded to be insane by sowing salt instead of seeds in his fields
Achilles believed that if he had not let Patroclus go out and fight he wouldn't have died.
Matthew 21:12, "And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money chargers, and the seats of them that sold doves,"
Jesus was angry because the money collectors were cheating the public of money they couldn't afford. The collectors said they needed for the sacrificial animals and Jesus wanted to teach them that he was the ultimate sacrifice and there was no need to sacrifice anything else.
Who shot the arrow in Achilles heel?
Paris hot Achille's heel with arrow. Some sources say it was directed by Apollo.
How did the Greeks defeat the Trojans?
After nine years of war the Trojan campaign had reached a deadly stalemate. The greatest of the Trojan heroes - Hector - was dead, but so was the Greeks' greatest warrior - Achilles.
One morning the Trojans looked out over the walls of the city and saw that the Greek fleet had sailed home. On the beach in front of Troy was a vast wooden horse. After some discussion the Trojans decided that the horse must be a magical talisman to protect the Greek fleet on its way home. The trojans pulled the horse inside their city walls.
The Greek fleet had not sailed home, it had berthed around the headland in Tenedos - waiting in ambush.
The wooden horse was hollow. That night the picked Greek warriors hiding inside it let themselves out, opened the city gates, and let in the Greek army which had sailed back onto the headland during the night.
The full story of the fall of Troy is told in Book II of Vergil's Aeneid.
Why does Agamemnon say he doesn't want to give Chryseis back?
At first because Agamemnon refused to ransom Chryseis to her father Chryses (a priest of Apollo); later he was forced to because of a plague Apollo had sent upon the Greek army for the treatment of his priest.
Why did Odysseus fight in the Trojan war?
He was the one who thought of the Troyan Horse (Horse of Troy?) in which the Greek hid so the Troyans thought they had fled. They took the Horse with them to the city and celebrated the whole day. That night, the Greek left the Horse and opened the city to their comrades. Together they slaughtered the Troyans.
What does Achilles do with hector after he kills him?
Achilles cuts holes in Hector's heels, laces a girdle Ajax gave him through them and fastens Hector's body to his chariot. He drives around the city and all through the Greek camp with Hector in tow. For twelve days he abuses Hector's body, but Aphrodite and Apollo keep the body from being damaged.
Eventually the gods intervene and Thetis asks her son to allow Priam to retrieve his son's body. Priam is protected by Hermes as he enters the Greek camp and Achilles, moved by a father's devotion, allows Hector to return to Priam and offers a truce of twelve days for Hector's funeral. This is the end of the Iliad.
What did Menelaus tell Telemachus about the wooden horse?
the new that menelus gives is that it was odyessu's idea of the horse
Whose daughters were slain by Artemis?
The Greek leader Agamemnon, according to myth, either he or his troops slaughtered a hare, and then Agamemnon boasted that he was better with an arrow than the goddess Artemis herself. Offended, Artemis demanded that Agamemnon's first born child be sacrificed to her, otherwise the winds would not blow favorably for the Greek fleet and they would not be able to get to Troy to lay siege to the city. So, he sent word to his daughter, Iphigenia, and told her that she was to be married to Achilles. She came and was sacrificed.
What was the first adventure of Odysseus?
The fist adventure of Odysseus when he left the defeated Troy with his 12 ships was the confrontation of the Cicones/ Ciconians, inhabitants of Ismara. His men looted the city but the next day he lost six men on each ship. He was fortunate enough to receive 12 jars of wine that helped him escape the Cyclops.
Nope no Pegasus... There only was a white horse named Shadowfax, but no pegasus.
Who prevents Achilles from killing agamemnon?
Hera sent Athena to talk to Achilles, she asked him to put down his sword. He said he had to obey the goddesses.
Agamemnon was the King of Mycenae, leader of the Achaeans, and the older brother of Menelaus. Paris was a prince of Troy and therefore not under any obligation to listen to Agamemnon. As long as Troy was willing to defend against the Achaeans, Paris did not need to return Helen.
His name actually means no lips.
The story is:
His mother, Thetis, was of divine descent, and knew some sorcery. In order to make her son invulnerable she tried to burn him slightly. This would burn off the human, vulnerable, side of him, and leave the divine, invulnerable, side of him. However she accidentally burned off his lips, and had to reverse the procedure. Before she could do this Peleus, father of Achilles, found out what had happened and gave the boy this name.
Since the burning procedure had failed Thetis did the well-known thing and dipped the boy in water from the river Styx. Doing this she held him by one heel and that tendon was later named after Achilles.
What does chryses do to try to get his daughter chryseis back from agamemnon?
Begs Agamemnon, and compares him self to Agamemnon's father.
What are the moral lessons of The Iliad and the Odyssey?
The moral lessons we can acquire in the Iliad and Oddysey are bravery, loyalty, politeness, unity and dignity.
Homer is traditionally attributed with writing the Iliad.
Homer was the person who wrote it but in those days, as many people didn't know how to read, cultured men would go around telling stories by singing and playing instruments. So it is said that many other people helped write the modern Iliad.
He died when Romeo visited the Capulets' catacomb to see Juliet before he killed himself. Paris was going in to give Juliet flowers and Romeo was saying things like "I want to lay with Juliet." Romeo meant that he wanted to die beside her, but Paris took it in the wrong way and told him to leave. They fought, Romeo won, Paris died.
What were Patroclus' last words in The Iliad?
In a low faint voice,
Patroclus, master of horse, you answered him:
'This is your hour to glory over me,
Hector. The Lord Zeus and Apollo gave you
the upper hand and put me down with ease.
They stripped me of my arms. No one else did.
Say twenty men like you had come against me,
all would have died before me spear.
No, Leto's son and fatal destiny
have killed me; if we speak of men, Euphorbus.
You were in third place, only in at the death.
I'll tell you one thing more; take it to heart.
No long life is ahead for you. This day
your death stands near, and your immutable end,
at Prince Achilles' hands.'
The Iliad and the Odyssey are important because they .?
For most of European history the Iliad and The Odyssey were the earliest known poems. This meant that almost all later European poetry made use of the Iliad or the Odyssey in one way or another.
During the twentieth century some poems earlier than the Iliad or the Odyssey were reclaimed:- particularly the Epic of Gilgamish.
But the Iliad and the Odyssey passed for the earliest European poems for many hundred years, so they were the poems that everyone turned to.
