... name is Iphigenia from Mycenae and in order to tell my story properly, I must start from the very beginning. It was about a month before the disturbing news had been heard. Helen, King Menelaus's wife, ran away with Paris, a Trojan citizen. King Menelaus was my father, King Agamemnon's, brother. When he learned about this surprising news, nothing held my father and his ... their way to the city of Troy the Greek army, including my father and uncle, stopped in Aulis. Running low on food and other vital supplies, my father decided to hunt in the woods. There he sought a deer roaming aroun...

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... a challenge, even if he is unaware of it. Hector also faces the challenge of standing by his brother, Paris, whom he knows was wrong in taking Helen from Meneleus in the first place. Hector, the greatest Trojan warrior and prince of Troy, is depicted as a loyal family man who places his duty to family ... at. " (3:40-42). Hector being a great warrior and valuing honor persuades Paris to fight Menelaus. It is agreed that the victor would get Helen and the war would end. Paris agrees and fights Menelaus; he is about to be defeated by Menelaus when Aphrodite intervenes and whisks him away, ...

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... supports masculine power. In this case, it either displays the positive portrayal of Agamemnon or criticizes those threatening masculine power. This is as indicated by the two women Clytemnestra and Helen. The Imagery here supports masculine power by arranging it into a new configuration of the human relationships. The family is perceived as the basis of gender with the elevation of the ... a coward man; he does not exhibit the traditional role of the courageous, brave, and heroic men. The lion Imagery according to Zeitlin also digs deep into the transgressions exercised by Helen, Clyte...

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... wife of king Menelaus. Many brave warriors from different kingdoms in Greece went to war to win Helen back, one of them was Odysseus staying 10 years in war to win Helen back. When the war was over and they had won Helen back, many of those brave warriors died and never went back home, Yet Odysseus didn't die but stayed there longer ... the next day. - Athena reveals her identity, becoming an eagle. She stays behind in Pylos guarding the ships. SECTION 4 - They arrive to Sparta, were the king and queen Menelaus and Helen were celebrating the marriages of their son and daughter. - They g...

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... meaning and direction Homer gave to it was a false/fictional interpretation. According to Homer the war had started with the abduction of the queen of Sparta, Helen but Strauss claims that that wasn't the only thing that lead to the great 10 year war of troy (as said to be by Homer). Strauss ... says that in the Bronze Age, Personal terms were held on higher grounds than abstract ones, so when homer based the cause of the war on Helen being abducted he is giving support to the idea of the Bronze Age and Trojan War being connected. Unlike Greek women, Anatolian women had more power. So .....

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... Iphigeneia). The winds came back to claim yet another victim. The two sets of wind could be symbolic of the sisters. The first set of winds was for Helen and the second set was for Clytemnestra. Second Stasimon The Chorus talk about the shame and destruction Helens marriage to Paris brings on Troy: "Troy's blood wedding ... : "The fury makes the Trojans pay" When Troy approaches her end, the men feel that they were "born for bloody slaughter". In the next two stanza's Helen is likened to a lion cub who has been snatched from the wild and reared as a domestic pet. At first this animal is ...

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... (also called Alexandros). Paris aided by the goddess Aphrodite, whom he had judged the winner of a beauty contest over the goddess Athene and Hera, had stolen Menelaus's wife, Helen. In order to recover Helen, Menelaus's brother, Agamemnon, the powerful king of Mykenai, had gathered a large force that included many prominent Greek warriors, themselves either princes or kings, and sailed across the Aegean ... to win back Helen and humble the great fortress-city of King Priam. After ten years of stalemate, the gods themselves became closely involved in the war down below, as King Agamemno...

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... 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. In this case, the gods are being manipulated by Homer to emphasize the consequences of the lack of human morality. However ... of justice spawned through love, which should be a fundamental ethic but cannot be in the Iliad, as it is selfish love/lust that propels the characters into fighting. Paris "won" Helen through a competition set by three...

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... 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. In this case, the gods are being manipulated by Homer to emphasize the consequences of the lack of human morality. However ... of justice spawned through love, which should be a fundamental ethic but cannot be in the Iliad, as it is selfish love/lust that propels the characters into fighting. Paris "won" Helen through a competition set by three...

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... would be determined to change this. As a hawk anticipates catching his prey; so was Odysseus about taking revenge. When Telemachus was with Helen and Menelaus he received the sign of the eagle. On Telemachus" right an eagle flew and Helen rightly says, "As the eagle caught the goose, -she, fattened in the house; he, coming from the hills where he was born ... , -so shall Odysseus, through many woes and wanderings, come home and take revenge. Even now, perhaps, he is at home, sowing the seed of ill for all the suitors"(145). Helen, Menelaus" wife, predicts that Odysseus has returned home....

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... . Before the war began it was prophesized that Troy would eventually fall at the hands of the Greeks. The war could have been prevented if Paris had returned Menelaus' wife Helen or fight Menelaus in fair duel. This solution did not occur and Troy's fate was sealed and Hector was forced to decide on his family's well being or fighting for ... glory and his people. Hector's decision is made difficult with Paris" lack of discipline as king with his episodes with his new wife Helen. This angers Hector, "Look, your people dying around the city, the steep walls, dying in arms-and all for you,...

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... Paris's carelessness for the trouble he caused, Hector is ready to correct his mistakes standing side by side with him at the battlefield. Philates is also shown, when Hector rejects Helen's offer to sit with her and talk, I see Hector's profound feeling of loyalty: he rejects her offer and he prefers to go visit his wife Andromache and his infant son ... maybe for the last time. "Don't make me sit, Helen, though you love me. You won't persuade me. Already my spirit urges me to defend the Trojans, who want me back among them. But you rose this man to get ... ...

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... him. Thyestes takes revenge by cursing Atreus, and then flees with his one remaining son Aegisthus. Atreus had two sons called Agamemnon and Menelaus. Agamemnon marries Clytaemnestra, and Menelaus marries Helen. Helen somewhat betrays Menelaus by being seduced by Paris of Troy, and as a result of this Menelaus takes revenge, by him and Agamemnon organizing a massive force to win her back, but ... ...

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... thought of during the ten long years of warfare. Hector explains that Paris and Menelaus should battle it out to the death, saying they should "fight it out/ for Helen and all her wealth in single combat. And the one who proves the better man and wins/ let him take both wealth and woman to his house. The rest will ... ...

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... visitors his story, and during this time he mentions Odysseus. Telemachos breaks down when he hears his father's name. This serves to prove his emotional instability and immaturity yet again. Helen comes over next, and she recognizes the young Telemachos. At this point, he relays his purpose in visiting: to find information about his father. Menaleus answers Telemachos by speaking of ... ...

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... men in the Homeric world, women have no public role or duty. When there is no man available or they are extraordinary figures (goddesses) in their own right - Arete, Penelope, Helen, Circe, and Calypso - do they act as a host. Perhaps the only public role of women comes when it is time to lament the death of a hero" (Higbie p.111). In The ... ...

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... Girls in their song "Ghost" say "Now I see your face before me I would launch a thousand ships To bring your heart back to my island" This verse is referring to the Helen of Troy, who is said to have been so beautiful that her abduction was the cause of the Trojan War, which in turn led to the launching of a thousand ships ... ...

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... arrangements for the sacrificial offering to the gods. He then goes to locate his irresponsible brother, who has been absent from the fighting. When he finds Paris entertaining himself with Helen, he is furious and chastises his brother for starting the war and then refusing to fight in it. He further accuses him of causing the deaths of thousands of Trojans ... ...

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... his wife. Homer lets the reader know that this tough army leader has a softer more human home life. One other important description is made and that is of the Agrive Helen. The elders note that, "...she is fearfully like the immortal goddess to look at" (Iliad, 3:151). In saying this they show understanding of Paris's decision to steal her away and ... ...

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... that his ships would be able to arrive safely and swiftly. This is an especially rotten thing to do because the war is being waged to reclaim just one woman, Helen. It is hard to justify killing one's own daughter so that somebody else can get his wife back. However, war is what he is good at, and if he didn ... ...

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... to the cruel abuse of men ." As a beggar Odysseus investigates who have remained faithful to him and devises a plan to avenge the wrongs done to his family by the suitors. Helen recounts to Telemachus an episode during the Trojan War where she discovered Odysseus dressed as a beggar in the city to retrieve information. Another example of disguise in the Odyssey is ... ...

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... childhood • Teiresias- a dead prophet who lived in the underworld • Calypso- a nymph who took care of Odysseus for 7 years • Polyphemus- a Cyclops; son of Poseidon • Menelaus- husband of Helen; King of Sparta; brother of Agamemnon • Nausicaa- daughter of Alcinous and Queen Acretes • Aeolus- God of the Wind; Poseidon's cousin • Telemachus- Odysseus" son • Eumaeus- a swineherd who ... ...

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