The morning after Horatio and the guardsmen see the ghost, the both intelligent and well-spoken King, Claudius, gives a speech to his courtiers, explaining his recent marriage to Gertrude - his brother’s widow and the mother of Prince Hamlet. Claudius exclaims that of course he mourns over his brother but has chosen to balance Denmark’s mourning with the delight of his marriage! Claudius is immediately portrayed to be relatively controlling over his Kingdom as he opens his speech to the council saying that everyone should mourn his brother’s death “in one brow of woe”, although to keep it under control with “wisest sorrow”. This also withdraws him somewhat into a cold light as natural emotions have to be withheld, possibly for his benefit in deceiving his own conscience. He uses positive language to make his recent marriage to Gertrude, his brother’s widow, sound perfectly normal through balancing “woe” with “joy.” To purify and justify his incestuous motive, Claudius believes his council, “through better wisdoms”, have accepted his “affair” all along.
Antinoös- The most arrogant of Penelope’s suitors Iros Argos Be familiar with the following concepts: “Scraps from the Homeric Banquet” , Aeshylus is reported to have said that his own tradedies were “scraps from the Homeric Banquet” Telemakhia- The first four books of The Odyssey are together called the Telemachia because they focus on the problems Telemachus faces while waiting for his father Odysseus to return home When do we see Odysseus, “the great tactician,” strategize? Line 405 When do we see Penelope, wife of the “great tactician,” strategize? Evidence of oral culture, oral storytelling in The Odyssey. Xenia-hospitable Character Frame Narrative Conception of the Underworld according to Homer What parts have scholars proposed were later added to The Odyssey? What is Odysseus’ relationship to his crew?
Achilles's rage: Portrayed Through Painting and Story The Iliad by Homer depicts a story of Achilles, an enraged Demigod who is pronounced the greatest warrior of all time and a hero to many. A vase painting depicts the savagery and brutality of Achilles's rage and springs from a story in the Iliad when King Priam's eldest son Hector mistakenly killed Patroclus. Achilles's brother in arms and dear friend Patroclus had foolishly worn Achilles's armor and led his Mymidon army into battle. Hector, thinking Patroclus was Achilles, killed Patroclus only to soon discover that he made a grave mistake that would cost him dearly. The vase painting depicts the charged scene from the Illiad in the moments after an enraged Achilles sought revenge and killed Hector.
Homer effectively shows readers through praise how admirable Achilles is, making him the justified character. Achilles essentially thought that Agamemnon was a coward according to his quote: “With a dog’s eyes and a rabbit’s heart! You’ve never had the guts to buckle on armor in battle…Confiscating prizes from the Greeks who talks back, and bleeding your people dry” (Homer xvii). Achilles believes that Agamemnon
In Agamemnon, Aeschylus uses his characters to express his political opinion on war. In lines 49-54 Agamemnon and Menelaus’s war cry, at the outset of the Trojan War, is compared to that of eagles stricken with agony after they lose their young and their homes. Aeschylus’s statement is one of doom and destruction on many levels. Troy is destroyed, many Greeks die, and the House of Atreus is destroyed. On line 437, the chorus is speaking and they say that the god of war was the “money changer” of dead bodies.
Homer utilizes Alliteration consistently through the epic poem, thus in result helps the theme in the text stick out more clearly. The use of Alliteration puts emphasis on the fact that there are many obstacles in which our hero must put his life and emotions on the line in order to make his way home. Odysseus has an encounter with the great monster Scylla whom is said by all common folk that if you were unlucky enough to come upon her, no god could save you. “Down the dark sea tide. Three times from dawn to dusk she spews it up….” (Homer 1232).
This is how Homer “gained his fame.” Many other scholars also believe the idea that “Homer” could have meant any travelling scholar, as there were no written records back then. The two poems are talking about a period in Greek history during the Trojan War. The Iliad is a lengthy poem about the Trojan War, and its’ ending. The poem starts out with the Achaean army taking over the town of Chryse and continued to tell the story of a greedy leader in the Achaean army, Agamemnon, and how he makes enemies with one of his best fighters, Achillies. The story goes on to tell about how the gods toy around with the humans, and take sides over each other that other gods may not like.
Even though Aereceaus loved his daughter, Aereceaus sacrificed his daughter, Danai, and grandson, Perseus to the sea because he wanted to follow the laws of Zeus by not letting any women live with children out of wedlock. Mortals also constructed exquisite temples and statues as tribute to the deities. Aereceaus, king of Argos, built a statue of Zeus overlooking his city. Cassiopeia also erected a picturesque statue of Thetis in a temple. Humans were capable of traveling to the other "worlds" while alive.
"The Odyssey's" setting spans out in great distances, and Odysseus travels to many different places on his way back to Ithaca. Odysseus is the main character of the poem and is typical of an epic hero. He is a war hero, greatly revered, he is even referred to as "Odysseus, master mariner and soldier" by Circe. Odysseus is faced with many challenges, but always seems to come out of these skirmishes even more larger than life than before. When he is faced with the Cyclops, Odysseus blinds him in his one eye with a lance, and then sneaks away with his men by riding underneath the Cyclops' own rams.
It tells the chronicle about a young Greek who was preordained to massacre his father, wed his mother, and in the process become the King of Thebes—before ultimately meeting his downfall due to his own conduct. The author, Sophocles, has really done a spectacular job of entailing several literary diplomacies in his epic piece of writing. Not only does he incorporate dramatic irony, but he integrates symbolism, trilogies, tragedies, hamartia, and hubris in his mesmerizing manuscript. Furthermore, in Oedipus Rex, Sophocles uses mystifying imagery, despondent tone, and catastrophic drama to epitomize the shift from glorious to demoralizing, proving that Oedipus was an undiscerning tragic hero who was too blind to notice his own particular outlook. Irony is often seen as an indispensable and crucial facet to Greek plays, or perhaps any play in that matter.