The Funeral Games of Patroclus Narrated by Meriones Hey, I’m Meriones, the son of Molus and the comrade and squire of Idomeneus. Today I found that some “great warrior” was killed. His name was Patroclus or something. Everyone was acting ridiculous in my opinion. First Achilles called everyone outside so we could drive our chariots around his body. Wow, what a great way to show we care for someone…not. While I was driving my chariot everyone around me was weeping and
The Trojan War was one of the most important events in Greek mythology. Homer's epic “The Odyssey” describes the journey of odysseus, one of the war’s heroes and everything that happened during the war. The war originated from a quarrel between the goddesses Athena, Hera, and Aphrodite over a golden apple. Zeus ordered Hermes to lead the three goddesses to Paris, the prince of Troy. He had a prophecy that he would be the downfall of troy. Paris could not decide which goddess to choose so the goddesses
Ajax, Hero or Villain? The Greek tale of Ajax (the greater) is a tragic story of how being discredited of your hard work can lead you to doing things out of your character. Ajax, son of Telamon and brother to Teucer was an important contributor to the Greek’s in the war against Troy (Donald Richardson;Malcolm Day). The Columbia Encyclopedia even describes Ajax as being, “slow of thought and speech, but quick in battle and always showing courage.” With a reputation such as this it is hard to imagine
The older orthography, attested first in the reign of Merneptah, is transliterated as skrS. This name has traditionally been vocalized in English as Sheke-lesh (Drew, 2000, Pp178-179) . The contention that the Shekelesh are etymologically related to Teucer is far-fetched due to it being only a possible translation rather than a known name for a people being Greek speakers. The Shekelesh were identified by three dynasties of Egyptians as Greek speakers, this brings a greater bearing on the translation
were Greeks, to avenge them for rewarding the armor of Achilles to Odysseus instead of him. Only after coming to his senses, he realized that he was disgraced and he committed suicide. The play moves on, however, to deal with his burial, in which Teucer, Ajax's half-brother, and Odysseus argue with two supreme kings, Agamemnon and Menelaus, that Ajax has the right to burial. Throughout the play until his death, Ajax is the central character, undergoing a grim change from a proud, insane lunatic
\Uncial 098 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), α 1025 (Soden),[1] is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament, dated palaeographically to the 7th-century.[2] It is also named Codex Cryptoferratensis (from the place of housing). Contents [hide] 1 Description 2 Text 3 History 4 See also 5 References 6 Further reading Description[edit] The codex contains a small part of the Second epistle to the Corinthians 11:9-19, on one parchment leaf (22.2 cm by 16 cm). The text is written in one column
12. The Quarrel of Achilles and Agamemnon Summary: In the beginning we are told that Apollo sent a great plague throughout Agamemnon’s army because he wouldn’t return Chryses’ daughter. Chryses begged the army, but more importantly the two commanders, to accept his gifts and return his daughter. The army replied that they respect the priest, but then harshly rejected the priests offer. After this happened Chryses prayed to Apollo that he might cast a great plague so Apollo shot arrows of despair
The god of mortals and immortals, Zeus, is mentioned on almost every single page in The Iliad. In the ancient society of the Greeks, they practiced polytheism, which means they worshipped more than one god (Speilvogel 364). Zeus was the son of the titan Cronus and he was basically the god of the weather. He had the ability to strike with lightning bolts. The Trojan War was between Greece and Troy. However, it was not only fought by mere mortals, but by immortals too, fighting for their own personal
Troy (or Ilium), situated on the west coast of modern day Turkey, was a city-kingdom with, at the time of the events described in the Iliad (an epic poem attributed to Homer), Priam as its king. Homer was a blind, Greek poet who lived around the 8th century B.C. He is very famous as he wrote two of the most famous poems of all times. These poems were called the Iliad and the Odyssey. Homer never mentioned himself in any of his writings, though scholars suspect that he was a farmer or artisan because