What city is besieged by the Greeks in The Iliad?
The Greeks siege the city of Troy, also called Ilion.
What are some examples of 'allusion'?
In literature, allusions refer to an outside event or source such as history, literature, religion, etc. What this means is that it pulls this information out of its original context and uses it to support the work. For example, a simile or metaphor for the "Garden of Eden" is an example of a biblical allusion. Any mention of Julius Caesar's death, or Brutus' betrayal, no matter how faint, is an allusion to history. Mentioning Shakespeare or Romeo and Juliet in another literary work is a literary allusion. Allusions are many.
Which is not a main character in The Iliad?
Out of which characters? Out of all? That's quite a long list. There are hundreds of people named only once in the illiad. You're better off asking for the list of main characters and then everyone else is not a main character.
How did Paris killed Achilles if he is invincible?
He had a weak spot on his heel that is why a weakness is called an Achilles heel
Did the Trojans use the Roman names for their gods?
Troy is traditionally supposed to have fallen sometime around 1194 BC. Rome was not founded until 753 BC - over four hundred years later.
The legend also suggests that Rome was founded by a descendant (Romulus) of one of the Trojan refugees (Aeneas) who escaped when the city fell.
So the Trojans could not have used Roman names for their gods, any more than Shakespeare could have written a play about Justin Bieber.
Rome didn't exist when Troy fell.
Why is Hercules allowed onto muont olypus?
he is the son of zues and he is a god look it up on the internet
How many figures of speech are there?
8
edit (khoa): Adjunction, Allegory,Alliteration, Allusion, Antithesis,Apostrophe, Climax, Euphemism,Hyperbole, Irony, Metaphor, Metonymy,Onomatopoeia, Oxymoron, Personification,Simile, Synecdoche
What does priam say to his son hector to discourage him from facing achillies?
Priam tells Hector that Achilles is a monster and is mightier than him. He states that if Hector meets him alone in battle he will die.
Why are the funeral games held in The Iliad?
The funeral games are held at the end of the Iliad in accordance with Greco-Roman tradition. In antiquity, when a hero died, funeral games were held to celebrate his honour.
For an excellent discussion of the ritualistic nature of the funeral games in the Iliad, refer to the following article from the Classics Association of the Midwest and South:
www.camws.org/meeting/2009/program/abstracts/06F2.Griffin.pdf
What is euxos according to The Iliad?
ευχοσ/euchos refers to the passing words spoken by the victor in combat over the slain.
Did Achilles go back to fight for Agamemnon in The Iliad after their argument?
yes he did because he didn't want Patroclus (i forget how to spell it, but it's basically his best friend) to go and take his place to fight.
Dome is to mountain as redwood is to what?
dome is to mountain as redwood is to forest woods and forests are the same
Is polyphemus in the book homers Iliad?
The cyclops Polyphemus is not, no.
But someone else named Polyphemus is.
Godlike Polyphemus is mentioned by Nestor in his speech to Agamemnon and Achilles in Book 1 (Line 264). This is possibly the Polyphemus who is an Argonaut. It is probably not the cyclops.
Which mythological hero has a nine letter name?
Agamemnon is a mythological hero whose name is spelled with nine letters of the alphabet.
According to Hittite sources, Agamemnon actually may have lived in the 14th century B.C.E.* In Hittite, his name was Akagamunas. He was a ruler of Ahhiyawa, which was Hittite for 'the land of the Achaeans'. Ancient Greece was settled by four main tribes: the Achaeans, the Aeolians, the Dorians, and the Ionians. But oftentimes the ancient Greeks simply were referred to as Achaeans.
Agamemnon sometimes was called the King of Mycenae, sometimes of Argos. He was the son of Queen Aerope and King Atreus of Mycenae. The King was killed by his own nephew Aegisthus, the son of his own twin brother Thyestes. Agamemnon and his brother Menelaus escaped to the court of King Tyndareus of Sparta. There, they married the King's own daughters. Agamemnon married Clytemnestra, Menelaus the infamous Helen of Troy.
With the outbreak of the Trojan War, Agamemnon became commander of the Achaeans. With the war's end, he claimed as his reward Cassandra, the daughter of Trojan King Priam. Agamemnon's wife was involved in a passionate affair with Aegisthus. Nevertheless, Clytemnestra resented the presence of Cassandra, and reacted most murderously against both her and Agamemnon. Clytemnestra and Agememnon had had four children: Chrysothemis, Electra, Iphigenia, and Orestes. Orestes promptly avenged his father's death by killing his mother.
*Before the Christian Era.
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Good answer, though to expand, Cytemnestra actually plotted to have Agamemnon killed years before while he was at Troy. Agamemnon had sacrificed their daughter Iphigenia to Artemis for favorable winds on the journey. Needless to say, Mother Clytemnestra did not appreciate her husband murdering their daughter and when Agamemnon returned, she and her new lover, Aegisthus, murdered him in his bath. Her son Orestes then killed Clytemnestra in revenge.
What relation is briseis to prince hector?
It isn't known, Briseis was a queen of Lyrnessus by her husband
Mynes. Her father was Briseus, who is sometimes told to be brother to Chryses the father of Chryseis; the father of Briseus and Chryses was said to be the otherwise unknown Ardys or Ardysus. Briseis either stayed in Troy or
following his death, Briseis: "... was given to one of Achilles' comrades-at-arms just as his armor had been", after the fall of Troy.
What has happened to Achilles between the death of hector and Priam's visit to the Greek camp?
He was killied
How did Menelaus feel about his possessions-?
He did not find a lot of joy in them and would give them up if he could bring back the men who perished in the land of Troy.
What does it mean when Homer states Athena had swept away their senses?
It means that a character doesn't think about what they are doing; that they do something foolish and don't think about the consequences.