PPT-Helen in Book 6 of the Iliad

What happens Hektor comes to Paris house and shames him to try and persuade him to return to the war Helen agrees that he should return joining in with shaming Paris on his decision to stay at home after he left the battle with Menelaus. Iliad . and Artistry. Iliad . 19.246-255 . I, by God, I’d drive our . Argives. into battle . now. ,. starving, famished, and only then, when the sun goes down,. lay on a handsome feast—once we’ve avenged our shame. . Gender in Early Twentieth Century Literature. BY. Professor Georgia Johnston. Saint Louis University. From . A Room of One’s Own. , Virginia Woolf. It would be a thousand pities if women wrote like men, or lived like men, or looked like men, for if two sexes are quite inadequate, considering the vastness and variety of the world, how should we manage with one only? Ought not education to bring out and fortify the differences rather than the similarities? For we have too much likeness as it is, and if an explorer should come back and bring word of other sexes looking through the branches of other trees at other skies, nothing would he of greater service to humanity; and we should have the immense pleasure into the bargain of watching Professor X rush for his measuring-rods to prove himself ‘superior’.. The Iliad and the Meaning of the Humanities. EPIC. 1). A long narrative poem of heroic action. .  . Epic of Gilgamesh. (Babylonian) 18. th. -. 10. th. century BCE. . .  . The Iliad . (Ancient Greek) 8. A. ristos . Akhaiôn. . (Best of the Achaeans). :. Value and Cultural Contradiction in the . Iliad. Review. Agency in the . Iliad. —read against a background of determination . . a) Natural . . . Type of Work. ....... The . Iliad. is an epic poem, a long narrative work about heroic exploits that is elevated in tone and highly formal in its language. .. . It was composed in ancient Greek and transmitted orally before it was written down. . The Iliad. GREECE 1250 B.C. The . Iliad tells of the war . between . Greece . and Troy (located in Asia . Minor or . the present day country of Turkey. ).. The Iliad provides the background . for The . Helen. By Pippa Walker. For the original audience it would have been fascinating to see Helen and Menelaus together, already being well aware of the events of the Trojan war. Therefore Homers depiction of the Spartan Queen has some rather interesting choices.. . Type of Work. ....... The . Iliad. is an epic poem, a long narrative work about heroic exploits that is elevated in tone and highly formal in its language. .. . It was composed in ancient Greek and transmitted orally before it was written down. . Iliad. Book 11. Classical Civilisation. The . aristeia. is a type of scene in the . Iliad. in which a hero in battle has his finest moments (. aristos. = best). Such is the ferocity of the hero's efforts, an . By Abba, Liz, Darcie & Lydia. Overview. ‘The Iliad’, mainly credited to Homer, has gained much critical reception since its devise in c. . 1194–1184 . BC. The epic poem tells almost the complete story of the Trojan War, and was . Please add if necessary to the summary in the Writing Assignments section of your notebook.. These are the main events of the Trojan War.. Here is a . quick “crash course” . through the lengthy Trojan . y . Homer. The . Iliad. - Background. The Epic Form. Oral tradition. Provides form and structure to express the legend. Homer’s language, meter, and style are formulaic. Over time, bards developed common expressions, phrases, and descriptions that fit the rhythms of the epic verse line.. Ancient Greece. During the Greek Dark Age, poets called bards traveled to different . poli. . . The bards told stories in the form of long poems called epics. People would often pay to hear the bards describe stories of the distant past. . Sophomore English. 2017. Who was Homer?. According to Biography.com, He was an ancient Greek poet who probably lived “between the 12. th. and 8. th. centuries BCE.” (No Biggie give or take 400 years???).