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. ... For example, in The Iliad, after Achilleus drags Hektor's body behind his chariot for days, Priam comes to pay ransom and attempt to get his son's body back. ... The Iliad and The Odyssey showcase compassion as an emotion necessary between man and god; and among fellow men. ...

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In The Iliad, Agamemnon, as an official of the highest rank, showed his incompetence frequently. ... For example, at the beginning of the story, Agamemnon said to the old man Chryses, priest of Apollo, "Never let me find you again, old sir, near our hollow ships, neither lingering now nor coming again hereafter, for fear your staff and the god's ribbons help you no longer" (Richmond Lattimore, The Iliad, 1.26-28). ...

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He is famous for writing both The Iliad and The Odyssey. The Iliad is about Achilles and his battle with Agamemnon. ... The true man and hero of The Iliad is Hector. ... The Iliad not only teaches Greeks the ideal way of being a warrior but it also gives the modern world a view of ancient warfare. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

A place where "the spirits of death stand close beside us/ in their thousands" and the heroes compete with the ultimate risk to win glory, The Iliad is very much a poem about the grimness of mortality. ... The gods are an integral pert of The Iliad, they not only provide the traditional mythological background but they also dictate the action of the poem. ... It is plain that in The Iliad the gods have the same outward form as man. ... Homer uses the epithet "godlike" with regards to a number of men in The Iliad; Achilleus, Polyphemos and Alexandros (Paris) to name but a few. ...

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Throughout Homer's The Iliad, Hera's unwavering determination and resourcefulness from the poem's start to finish is a testament to the goddess's character. ... Though Hera is often presented in negative light, her strong-willed character adds a vital contrast to the other female roles and illuminates the diversity of women throughout The Iliad. ... Nonetheless, Homer's The Iliad would not be nearly as prolific without her headstrong character and gender-defying resolution. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"The Odyssey" and "The Iliad", were masterpieces created by Homero, which represented -more than magical novels- a real testimony about a specific memento in the history of the Greek civilization (Graf). ...

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Athena Athena Back in time when Greece was making its mark in history as one of the great civilization of the Ancient World, there was a great deal of emphasis on the Gods and Goddesses. To the Greeks the world was governed by the Gods and they were the reason many things happened in the world, ...

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• Grade Level: High School