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Homer

             Homer's Iliad is laden with messages and ideals that people of ancient Greece once .
             valued and to some extent we still value today. There are recurrent themes throughout the epic .
             that support Homer's main message which was learning life lessons and growing as an .
             individual. 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. Homer gets his message across through the acts of hubris committed by .
             characters and the consequences that are ultimately paid by committing this hubris. .
             Homer uses Achilles as an example of a character that commits hubris through the entire .
             epic quite consistently. The Iliad begins with Achilles" selfish and childish acts of rage. Achilles .
             allows for his emotions to overpower him throughout the epic. First when he prays to Thetis for .
             his comrades to be killed so that Agamemnon will beg him to return to fight the Trojans. .
             Achilles continues to act like a child and less of a hero until Patroclus" death.
             Homer has a way of making the reader have a love and hate relationship with the hero .
             Achilles. There are times when his acts are so inhuman that he must be hated but towards the end .
             you realize that he can be human. In the last few books Achilles really show his aresteia. He's an .
             excellent fighter and Homer makes it clear that is what is valued in their society and it's what .
             will bring the hero the greatest honor and glory. Achilles at one time pondered the reasons for .
             remaining at Troy and fighting the Trojans. It is a human thing to question your own existence. .
             He actually considered for a brief moment living a long and dull life rather than a short and .
             glorious one. Books 23 and 24 of the Iliad show how Achilles becomes human again by .
             participating in the social system of the Greeks. He does this through Patrocolus" funeral games .


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... was to win a college scholarship, and he realized that by making it to the National Science Fair, he would have a good chance of getting one. Homer began studying rockets and focusing on learning about them. He learned that he could become a rocket scientist if he worked hard enough toward that goal, and that ... was what he was set on doing. Homer's interest in rockets began when he witnessed Sputnik flying through the sky. He turned to rocket building when he realized that playing football was not for him ... shoot for a high goal. She gave him books to help him learn about rockets a...

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3. Homer's Sympathetic Hero - Achilles

... by hiding away. However, if Agamemnon was reasonable, Achilles would not be hiding away. Achilles is not pouting, but preserving his honor. Homer is just trying to show his readers that Agamemnon is a bully to Achilles and Achilles wants Agamemnon to apologize and beg for his restoration ... through and his compassion for the loss of Patroclus, triggering sympathy for Achilles and his loss of Patroclus. At this point in the epic, Homer knows he has the readers' sympathy, but he continues to enthrall the readers' emotions with empathy. Achilles, and the readers, knows if he ... Hector. I...

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4. Plato's Homer

... society did not have room for art. Plato felt art was useless in society and far from the truth. Although Plato loved Homer, author of The Odyssey, he felt Homer did not belong in the perfect society. Plato believed that any form of art was truth less. Plato's second reason for ... man is not to be reverenced more then the truth, and therefore I will speak out. (2) Although Plato had a love for Homer, he felt Homer painted a false picture with his poetry. Homer's poetry was very descriptive, "Now stripping back his rags Odysseus master of craft and battle vaulted onto the great threshol...

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5. The writings of Homer and Hesiod

... each have had there own impact on our present day society. Surviving literature by Hesiod includes but are not limited to Works and Days and Theogony. Homer's works include the Iliad as well as Odyssey. Though along similar subject matter, the two authors differ in their styles and the characters they use in ... of two such writings are Catalogues of Women and Shield of Heracles. In reading both of the above-mentioned authors, it was apparent to me that Homer placed great importance on developing the hero image in all of his writings. Hesiod on the other hand seems to just give a brief d...

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6. Plato's Homer

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7. Homer Barron in A Rose for Emily

... And his regional and class background is also quite opposite of Emily, who is from prestigious family in the town of Jefferson. On the other hand, Homer is a day laborer and northerner and for that reason, so his regional and social rank are not fully welcomed by the town's people. Presently two ... and a bad example to the young people" In the small town living people who seem interested in other people, where every action of Emily and Homer becomes the talk of town, it seems improbable that he is homosexual because it was not specifically remarked that he is gay and the narrator does n...

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8. Homer's Portrayal Of Women

... a subordinate of Alcinous. Arete is a very powerful woman. She is as powerful as the king, yet he gives orders to Arete, calling her "Lady" (Homer p.292), but commanding her to bring things to make ready for the departure of Odysseus. Like Arete, who is said to look like a god, many other ... Wise, tall in her beauty as Artemis or pale-gold Aphrodite, appeared from her high chamber and came down to throw her arms around her son" (Homer p.318).This adds to the glorification of women in The Odyssey. The beautiful Nausicaa is also hailed as a goddess. "Daughter of great Alkinoos, Nausicaa, ...

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9. Emily and Homer

... by several situations of Emily's life. Tradition plays a big role on Emily and how she is different from the changing town she lives in. Homer in this story, represents the Northern fast life which contrasts greatly with that of Emily's. The concepts of settling down, marriage, values, family, ... responsibility and death are also described through Emily's and Homer's relationship. Emily was the tradition in the South. She was resisting to change, as are traditions. Emily resisted the new taxing laws, the new ... town, "...our whole town went to her funeral..." (pg. 28) The town also kn...

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10. Winslow Homer:

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