The Iliad
Focus Questions
Book I
1. What do the first six lines tell us about Achilles? The first six lines tell us that Achilles might be a military general or some one who can lead Greeks into battle, It states that Achilles is full of rage also that he is murderous, and doomed. I would think this meant that he would be going to “hell” for all the bad and murder that he has done. It says that he has killed a lot of people “hurling down to the House of Death so many sturdy souls”(stanza 1, line 3). This also means that he is strong and a great fighter because he has killed so many men but the men that he killed were sturdy so he must be strong and skilled to be able to bring down many sturdy men.
2. What does the priest, Chryses, ask for? What happens when his request is rejected? Chryses asks Agamemnon for his daughter Chryseis back that he had kidnapped. Agamemnon rejects his request for his daughter and tells Chryses that Chryseis will spend the rest of her life in his house sharing a bed with him and if Chryses ever comes back to his ship to beg for his daughter or offer a ransom he will kill him. Chyses leaves the ship and prays to Apollo to send a plague to the Greeks, and Apollo answers his prayers and sends a plague to them.
3. What is Calchas’ explanation for the “plague” destroying the Argives? What solution does he give to solve the problem? What is Agamemnon’s response? Calchas’ explaination of the plague is that it is not because the Argives have not kept a vow or a sacrifice but because Agamemnon spured his priest and refused to free his daughter back to him and even refused the ransom. Calchas’ solution to get rid of the plague is to return the girl Chryseis to her father, without any price or ransom paid for her return and to carry a sacred hundred bulls to Chryse town. Agamemnon gets mad at Calchas’ response and accuses him of only foreseeing bad fortune. Agamemnon agrees to return Chryseis but he wants another prize in her place so that his pride isn’t damaged and makes the comment that maybe the prizes that the other Argives had won should be given to him and if they don’t he will just simply take it from them.
4. Why does Achilles become so angry with Agamemnon? Why does he finally grant Agamemnon’s demand? Achil...
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... In far lands he shall not, though he find a house of gold.”(p304, stanza 1, lines 36-38).
2. What causes the empty seats? “Six benches were left empty in every ship that evening when we pulled away from death.”
3. Describe the socio/economic life of the Cyclops. Does Odysseus approve of their lifestyle? Why not? Are the Cyclops regarded as “human”? What are they? The Cyclopes live by themselves not encountering with each other, they take orders from no one and follow no laws.
4. What is the first lie Odysseus tells the Cyclops? What is the second? What do these lies show about Odysseus?
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1. Why have the suitors invaded Odysseus’ home? They want to marry his wife so that they can become king and rule over Odysseus’ land and have his wealth.3
2. Describe the “test of the bow.”
3. How does Odysseus identify himself to the herdsmen?
4. What happens to the goatherd (Melanthos)?
5. What happens to the twelve “bad” women?
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First, Odysseus and Thor both suffer from their pride. This results in both Odysseus and Thor to suffering hardships that aids their charters to develop in positive ways. For instance, Odysseus encounter with the Cyclops. Odysseus’ crewmen suggest to their leader to take the cheese and livestock back to the ships and set sail. However, because of Odysseus’ pride they stay to see what their host would look like and to receive a guest gift. This cost Odysseus the life of six crewmen. Furthermore, Odysseus reveals his name to the Cyclops; after blinding him. Resulting in angering
This is where he is wrong. He wants to leave the island and get back home, but really if the Cyclops has help from the gods that feel sad for him being blind he could be able to go to Odysseus’ home and destroy it all. So then when Odysseus is back all he will have is a destroyed hometown and a blind Cyclops to deal with. This is where individual good vs communal good, people in that type of situation especially with gods, and monsters involved you can’t just think about yourself you have to think about others. Yes, Odysseus was not selfish for leaving so that he could see his wife, but he was selfish of not thinking what could happen with a world of gods and a son of a major god, Poseidon. In this type of setting, you can not think about yourself you have to think about the entire world around you because with one word from the gods they can easily destroy cities themselves, or seduce others to destroy the cities for them, with a reward. Odysseus thinks that he can rule over the world and through his selfishness his actions will cause no harm as said, “The poem in effect redefines justice in terms that privilege the individual over the community, since Odysseus’ vengeance brings on neither exile nor death at the hands of his victims’ families”(10 Schein). In this case, Odysseus is very lucky because he is loved by the goddess Athena but for others this at times is the exact opposite, through their actions all they get is punished that leads to death. In addition, Odysseus has to stab the Cyclops eye, Zeus had to kill all of Odysseus’ men, and Penelope had to get a new husband. Without destroying the eye Odysseus and his men would have been trapped in the Cyclops’ cave. Zeus would have been hated by Helios, and as a leader you need to have as many people you can to like you. Also, Penelope had to find a new husband because that is her only way to have a social stance, without a man
One important characteristic that Penelope and Odysseus share is their loyalty to each other. Odysseus failed to return home seven years after the Trojan war. Because he is assumed dead, 108 wealthy noblemen and princes invade his palace and refuse to leave until Penelope has married one of them. By marrying her, the suitors hope to gain control over Odysseus’s wealth and power. However, Penelope remains faithful to Odysseus. But, as a woman, she is powerless to remove the suitors from the palace. And without a man in the household, she is subject to her father’s decisions. However, despite his wish for her to remarry, Penelope clings to the hope of Odysseus’s return and remains faithful to him. She waits and gathers information by asking strangers who arrive in Ithaca about Odysseus. She goes through the stories of their encounter point by point, and asks about every detail while tears stream down her eyes. Although the suitors promise her a secure future, Penelope continues to wait for Odysseus. Without Odysseus, she does not believe that she will ever be happy again.
The first line of the Iliad describes a human emotion that leads to doom and destruction in Homer's poetic tale of the Trojan War. Achilles' rage is a major catalyst in the action in the Iliad. It is his rage that makes him both withdraw from and, later, rejoin the war with a fury. Why is Achilles enraged? Is his rage ignited solely by his human adversaries or do the gods destine him to the experience? Achilles' rage has many facets. His rage is a personal choice and, at times, is created by the gods.
...journey is less cyclical than Achilles' but similarly ends with his regret for the ravages of war. Odysseus is a flawed character, much like man himself, and his actions can only be fully accounted for by attributing them to the gradual progression of his soul. He is gifted, yet possesses shortcomings; insightful, yet blind; driven, yet lost. Achilles is divine, yet mortal; rational, yet contradictory; kind, yet vicious. Still, together they represent the ideals of Greek mythology and the weaknesses of mankind. They are in control of their own actions, but subject to fate. Through both heroes, Homer manages to convey some of the most fundamental features of human existence.
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On Odysseus's journey he stopped at Cyclops’ Island for supplies and food. Instead of hunting and making supplies our protagonist and his crew steal from Polyphemus and stay in his living space thinking they can get more from him. After a while Polyphemus comes home and starts to get angry at his “visitors” so Odysseus tries to patch things up “here we stand, beholden for your help, or any gifts you give -as a custom is to honor strangers.” In the end they escape with Polyphemus's sheep.
For this second identification Odysseus has undergone a long journey, measured not only by time and distance but also as a series of alienations in foreign lands, illustrating to Odysseus what exactly his identity does not consist in, namely the immortal, the underworld, or other nationalities. Through these alienations Homer establishes the hostile world in which Odysseus must struggle to exist and in which sometimes the Gods themselves become hostile, causing mortals to suffer. In order to survive this, Odysseus also explores what it is to present oneself as without a past, home, fixed identity, or as he names himself to the Cyclops - a "Noman". That is to say that in certain instances Homer presents Odysseus as performing the opposite action of most mortals(i.e. attempting to make a name for themselves) by disguising or even eradicating his name, thus establishing an externally identifiable ...
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