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Odyssey Journal
Throughout the Iliad, both Achilles and Agamemnon are portrayed as womanizers who have tempers when they don't get what they want. Agamemnon takes a war bride, puts his army in danger because of her, and when he is forced to give her up, takes Achilles' concubine. Achilles, unhappy of this, mimics a toddler who sits down and refuses to move because a toy is taken away, as he refuses to fight for a time. Throughout the epic poem, both men treat women like objects that are only there to satisfy men's needs and can be traded back and forth like playing cards. For this reason, Agamemnon's death is certainly fitting. His wife, who he has cheated on many times, finally gets the chance to be with a lover who makes her happy, and gets to murder her cheating husband as well. Achilles, although honored for his heroism, seems to be unhappy in the underworld. His death also seems to lack valor, as he was killed not by one of his great rivals, but by Paris. Achilles' unhappiness is warranted by his actions in life. While Greek society certainly honored heroism, they didn't seem to mind if their heroes were womanizers and murderers. I believe both "great" mean got what they deserved in the afterlife.
Journal Part Two
In the Greek world, heroism, valor, and bravery were the greatest of all characteristics, so it is fitting that the Greeks' idea of hell is people walking around without unmotivated, unable to be brave. Americans' version of hell would be a different one, filled with all of the little frustrations of life. Some people would be caught in endless lines in department stores. Others, would be forever in a traffic jam. Still others would he stuck on the line with an infuriating member of customer service forever. Maybe some would get the mail each day, constantly finding letters about matters that they had resolved, and they would have to spend every day talking to the same companies and telling the same stories over and over again. These seem to be the little things that bother Americans most, so it would make sense that their hell would be made up of the things that most infuriate them.
Do you disagree with any of Pope's opinions or pronouncements in the Heroic Couplets or "An Essay on Man"? Pope is critical of individuals who "cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust," suggesting that the unhappiest people are people who blame God, rather than themselves for all of their troubles, or who curse God because their lives are imperfect. The need to accept life's imperfections while still working to enact positive changes
Introduction When Titus led the Roman army into Jerusalem in 70 AD to put down the Jewish rebels who had controlled the city for the four years following the riots of 66 AD, the Roman Army showed no mercy: it came to destroy the Judean Free Government that had formed and to reassert Roman primacy. The result was the destruction of the Temple, the capture of some 700 Jews[footnoteRef:2] all of
As stated earlier, Burgess' writings were very scientific in nature, and naturally they read in a very scientific way. The book is presented as a study of the makings of Homers poetry and how his poetry (especially Iliad and Odyssey) became known as the Epic Cycle genre. He states, "Indeed, eventually the whole genre of epic poetry became equated with Homer." (pg 130) The only problem that a reader might have
Revenge, too, is prominent in all of these works: Beowulf must destroy the monster our of revenge for the havoc on the Kingdom; the Greeks must avenge the kidnapping of Helen and the slights against their lands; the Knight, the Miller and the Wife of Bath all must seek revenge for perceived wrongs. Poems like Canterbury Tales, Beowulf, and the Iliad and Odyssey, especially as oral tradition, frame the journey
(Leaves, 680) Similarly Whitman informs us: Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems, You shall possess the good of the earth and sun…there are millions of suns left, You shall no longer take things at second or third hand…nor look through the eyes of the dead…nor feed on the specters in books, You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me.
(Hill 83; Javors 35) We are not alone in this. In China, often accused of attempting to mimic Western culture, the producers of an RTV show "Ying Zai Zhongguo," or translated somehow as "Win" in English draw a similar conclusion: their hope that the program would encourage more people in China to start their own businesses. Song Wenming...hoped the show would introduce the "positive power" of entrepreneurship. Ms. Zhou said she