The Iliad portrays the laws of hospitality in the plot and in its background. These rules govern the relationship and behavior of hosts and guests in ancient Greece. The nucleus of these laws was the treatment towards another whether a guest or a host. If you were hosting someone or a certain someone calls on you to talk, you are to treat that person with kindness and a certain extent of respect. In the plot of the Iliad Achilles receives Agamemnon's" "gift bearers" or negotiators to his tent and hears them out, even though he is still raging with anger. Also in the books background, Zeus believes that this hospitality is very important and watches over these happenings very carefully throughout time. Next we have the behavior of the guest. They are to respect their host at all times, as did Odysseus, Nestor, and Ajax when they went to Achilles tent. No man demanded or tries to argue Achilles, but simply did what they came to do and left. To show how much this meant to the Greeks, Diomedes would not fight Hippolochus on the battlefield on account of Hippolochus" grandfather was once a guest of Doimedes grandfather (b.6, ls.257-58). Zuess even sided with the Greeks in the Trojan War on account of Paris violating the rules of hospitality when he took Helen from Menelaus" house when he was not there. You could go so far as to say that the Trojan War and the Iliad came about because of the violation of the rules of hospitality by Paris. For the Greeks to go to war with 1,372 ships filled with men ready to die, in order to right this wrong, shows how passionate these men believed in the laws of hospitality.
Homer's epic poem, The Iliad, is about Achilles, however this is not far from saying The Iliad is about the Greeks and what it is to be Greek. ... Through the Iliad it is evident that the heroic values the warrior upholds are social and religious as well as personal. ... Religious values include upholding the laws of hospitality and carrying out proper religious burial, as well as valuing the support of the Gods. ...
Escort to visitor's next destination (Source: Reece, 6-7) In fact, Steve Reece notes that Homer's Odyssey contains twelve elaborate hospitality scenes and the Iliad has four (5). ... Since it is useful to the reader to see how this pattern of hospitality operates in these stories, an examination of a scene from Homer's Iliad follows. ... He exclaimed that of all the Greeks, they were his closest friends (Iliad, IX, 232-41). ... What should come next in a hospitality scene is the identification of the guest, but Homer noticeably omits it in Book IX of the Iliad. ... Other...
The Iliad and the Odyssey will prove to be literature that shapes a nation. ... The Iliad and the Odyssey became a part of the Greek educational curriculum. ... Young men would learn from Odysseus or Achilles to maintain their well being, to speak eloquently in company with other men and to give and receive hospitality. ... The Iliad is set in a time of war. ... Homer wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey in the eighth century B.C. ...
In epics like The Iliad and The Odyssey many emotions are displayed and acted out on. ... Going along with this custom, in both The Iliad and The Odyssey Homer creates images of the gods exhibiting emotions. ... Similarly in The Iliad, Apollo hears Chryse's prayers to return his daughter home. ... Eumaeus displays hospitality through compassion. ... The Iliad and The Odyssey showcase compassion as an emotion necessary between man and god; and among fellow men. ...
Homer's Iliad is laden with messages and ideals that people of ancient Greece once valued and to some extent we still value today. ... The main themes of the Iliad are heroes" code of conduct, honor and rage, hospitality/community, greed and power, the definition of a hero, and social systems between Greeks and Trojans. ... The Iliad begins with Achilles" selfish and childish acts of rage. ... Books 23 and 24 of the Iliad show how Achilles becomes human again by participating in the social system of the Greeks. ... Another overstepped boundary is the cause of the war ...
The gods in the Iliad, however, are not concerned with, or upholders of spiritual matters. ... The Gods in the Iliad assume anthromorphic as opposed to spiritual personas. ... However, despite the gods often being instigators of events; for example the Trojan war- Aphrodite appears to cause it, but ultimately the war is caused by Paris who steals Helen by abusing Menelaos" hospitality thus provoking Menelaos to call upon the suitors of Helen to rescue her. ... The mortals in the Iliad are fighting for principle of justice spawned through love, which should be a fundamental ethic but cannot...
The gods in the Iliad, however, are not concerned with, or upholders of spiritual matters. ... The Gods in the Iliad assume anthromorphic as opposed to spiritual personas. ... However, despite the gods often being instigators of events; for example the Trojan war- Aphrodite appears to cause it, but ultimately the war is caused by Paris who steals Helen by abusing Menelaos" hospitality thus provoking Menelaos to call upon the suitors of Helen to rescue her. ... The mortals in the Iliad are fighting for principle of justice spawned through love, which should be a fundamental ethic but cannot...
Achilles The comparison between "The Iliad" and "Beowulf" falls along the lines of a comparison of one myth to another. ... This celebration shows the hospitality that is shown throughout the epic "The Iliad." ... There is one big difference in "The Iliad"; the trust between two strangers is broken because of the Kidnapping of Helen by Paris's when he is a visitor in the house of Menealos. ... The fact that the Grendel's mother came back to avenge her sons death showed that this Epic is very much like the ...
However, in both Aeschylus' Agamemnon and Homer's The Iliad Zeus can frequently be found dabbling in the destinies of humans, and making up the rules as he goes along "because he can. Aeschylus' Agamemnon portrays a different picture of Zeus than Homer's The Iliad. ... The chorus of Agamemnon, unaware at this time of the murderous plot of Clytaemnestra, believe that Zeus is championing the cause of their king, Agamemnon: "Ten years gone, ten to the day/our great avenger went for Priam--/Menelaus and lord Agamemnon,/two kings with the power of Zeus,"" (ll. 45-48)...
