... deities who were known as the Olympians. The Olympians possessed great power and wielded it with such a tremendous intensity. Some of them included Poseidon, the god of the seas, whose fury can cause shattering earthquakes and the most devastating of sea storms. Another was Hades, the Greek god of death, who resided in the underworld and commanded legions of the undead ... following passage: But now Poseidon, god of the earthquake, saw him- just returning home from his Ethiopian friends, from miles away on the Solymi mountain-range and it made his fury boil even more. He shook his head ...

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... discovers that Patroclus was killed by Hector. Achilles then reconciles with Agamemnon and rejoins the battle, despite knowing his deadly fate, and drives all the Trojans before him in his fury, wearing the new special armor that her mother gave to him. Hector was not expecting Achilles to rejoin the battle. The Trojan army was afraid of Achilles flees back behind ... ...

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... chains (unbreakable) and told him "An eagle red with blood shall come, a guest unbidden to your banquet. All day long he will tear to rags your body, feasting in fury on the blackened liver" (Mythology 75). One last example is the punishment given to King Sisyphus. Sisyphus had his wife throw his body in the square before he died ... ...

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... risking it all to get back home to the ones he loves. Odysseus loves his wife a great deal, and would do anything to return to her. He fought Poseidon's terrible fury. He ventured down to the Underworld and back again. Penelope, too, loved Odysseus, and waited patiently for him to return home, so she, the beautiful queen, could have her king ... ...

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... love with him and holds him captive on her island, Ogygia, for seven of the ten years of his journey home, while at the same time protecting him from Poseidon's fury. At the beginning of Book 5, Calypso speaks at Hermes about the double standard regarding goddesses and mortals. "Hard-hearted you are, you gods! You unrivaled lords of jealousy--scandalized when ... ...

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... my glorious armour about your shoulders...But obey to the end this word When you have driven them from the ships, come back You must not, in the pride and fury of fighting, go on slaughtering the Trojans- (16. 60-92). It is only when Patroklos is killed that Achilles" anger truly takes possession of him and causes him to join ... ...

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... Achilles brings grief to all the Achaeans by not entering the war with them at the ships because of his rage. Constantly, he is told to "beat down [his] mounting fury" and to "relent" (144). Odysseus even asks the fierce Achilles, "Have you no heart at all to fight the gutting fire form the fast trim ships? The spirit inside you ... ...

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... for his good, or his honor. / Great as he is, let him take care not to make us angry: / for see, he does dishonor to the dumb earth in his fury." (24:52-54) This plea shows how Achilleus has gone to far and stripped Hektor of his honor and glory enough to ruin his status even while he lived. As ... ...

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... daughter of the Apollo's priest, was abducted by Greek soldiers and delivered to Agamemnon. His refusal to return her to her father angered Apollo greatly, causing him to unleash his fury, sending his fiery arrows upon the Greek soldiers. This refusal also angered Achilles, the Greek's best soldier and only hope for winning the war, to the point of his leaving ... ...

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... it is a matter of honor and he is not afraid of his destiny. He states: Let bygones be bygones. Done is done./ Despite my anguish, I will beat it down,/ the fury mounting inside me, down by force./ But now I"ll go and meet that murderer head on,/ that Hector who destroyed the dearest life I know./ For my own death, I"ll meet ... ...

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... attack him verbally. One suitor yells, " Buzzards will tear your eyes out!'- (32). To express their anger and outrage, the suitors threaten Odysseus with violent remarks. By overemphasizing the suitors' fury, the hostility between Odysseus and the suitors is clearly identified. In this passage, hyperboles serve a sole purpose of overstressing gruesome ideas. The effect of these ideas helps to clarify the ... ...

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... love with him and holds him captive on her island, Ogygia, for seven of the ten years of his journey home, while at the same time protecting him from Poseidon's fury. At the beginning of Book 5, Calypso speaks at Hermes about the double standard regarding goddesses and mortals. "Hard-hearted you are, you gods! You unrivaled lords of jealousy--scandalized when ... ...

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... went jutting straight out through Patroclus" back. Down he crashed-horror griped the Achaean armies. As when some lion overpowers a tireless boar up on a mountain summit, battling in all their fury over a little spring of water, both beasts craving to slake their thirst, but the lion beats him down with sheer brute force as the boar fights for breath- so now ... ...

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