The Iliad

To retrieve Cerberus from the Underworld.

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Astyanax

bow and arrow...

800 BC -750 BC, assuming that he did live: most historians now think that he never existed as an actual person, but was 'invented' only hundreds of years later by the Greeks who wanted to name an author for the very ancient Iliad and Odyssey poems.

He had to give him back his daughter.

its about the Trojan war...

His mother dipped him in the River Styx, but because she held on to him by the heel, that is the spot where he was vulnerable.

The Union had a major advantage over the Confederacy because the Union had; Bigger armies, better iron production, better army production, and better banking.

In a nutshell, Achilles (or Achilleus) kills Hector because Hector kills Petroklos, Achilles' friend. As a result of Agamemnon dishonouring Achilles by expropriating his slave girl, Briseis, Achills laments to his mother, the nymph Thetis, of the indignity he had suffered at Agamemnon's hands. Thetis instructs her son to withdraw his aid from the Achaean forces, while she endeavours to call upon Zeus, who promises her a means by which Achilles' honour can be restored. Zeus choreographs the following days of the Trojan war to allow the Trojans to come to the brink of destroying the Achaean army, thus emphasizing their need of Achilles and his armies to succeed in the war. Agamemnon relents and sends envoys to plead with Achilles to return, but Achilles is adamant and continues to withhold his assistance. At the most dire moment, Patroclos, Achilles' dearest friend, assumes Achilles' armour and leads his armies into battle, momentarily driving off the Trojans, but ultimately leading to Patroclos' death by the great Trojan prince Hector's sword. Achilles returns to battle to avenge Patroclos' death. To allow Achilles to regain the honour he had lost at the beginning of the epic, Zeus allows Hector to be killed by Achilles, thus satisfying the promise Zeus had made to Thetis.

hero initially refuses the call to action

he says stuff

He thought that he was Achilles.

The Trojans had great walls and the advantage of their homeland against the Greeks.

Eurylochus was defiant. He attempted to stop Odysseus men from following him to Circes house but Odysseus men decided to follow him and Eurylochus came with because Odysseus yelled at him.

king priam was the king of troy.he had two sons.hector and paris.hector was elder and was very brave in fighting wars.paris went to the city of greeks and came back to troy with the queen of greece,helen.so,all the greece warriors came to troy to fight a war with the warriors of troy.achilles was one of the greek warriors.he was very strong and no one could defeat him.but he was not interested in the war.he had a cousin who accompanied him to the war place.he dressed himself as achilles and went to the battle field.he died in the hands of hector.so,with grudge,achilles likks hectorand takes his dead body.then,king priam goes to achilles and asks him to give his son's body for the last ceremony.that was the last conversatio between king priam and achilles.

Apollo is.

mortal as far as i know

According to legend, Arion was thrown overboard by sailors upon his return from Italy, but a dolphin charmed by Arion's song carried him to dry land.

Its proper name is the Iliad. In Classical Attic; sometimes it is referred to as the Song of Ilion or Song of Ilium (Ilium and Troas was the archaic and Classical period Greek names that Troy was known by).

The name of the poem, meaning 'of Ilion', is an ellipsis for 'a book on Ilion'. So no one named the poem this way, that was just how the Greeks referred to it (because of its immense popularity, everybody knew which book on Ilion you were talking about). In present form, the name was probably first employed in an extant written text by Herodotus (II, 116 sq.).

The war was sparked by the theft of Helen the wife of Menelaus of Sparta. The main objective contrary to some flawed and biased opinions was to take back Helen and punish the Trojans for their insolence after initial requests for Helen to be returned had been declined.

Sacking cities during the Homeric bronze age archaic time was a method of waging war. It was how they fed their troops and kept up supplies and how the military was 'paid' for their service. 3,000 years ago it was the way things were. These were ancient warrior cultures and can't be judged by modern standards to fit a modern narrative.

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The main objective of the Greek looting expedition in Asia Minor was the richest city - Troy.

Trojan is a the adjective of Troy.

The Iliad and the Odyssey are both Epics.

Other examples of Epic poetry include the Aeneid, the Thebais, Tasso's Gierusallemme Liberata, and Milton's Paradise Lost.

Spenser's Faerie Queene, and Tennyson's Idylls of the King are also probably epics - but there is some debate around those poems.

his condition is for achilleus to fight in the war otherwise agamemonm wont give chrysis back.

EPIC :)

The main character is referred to as the protagonist.