Iliad

The following paper i have formulated is about the Iliad. the book takes place at a city called troy were to sets of people are fighting for a girl. the auther homer convas to you a story with anger battle.and a love story. so in turn the book has something for everyone. so futhermore i will stop talking and levave you to readf my dinosesis of the book.



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Background Information
The book is set in the bronze age. More specifley during the troyjan war. The arcanens are fighting the troyjans for Helen of troy. The arcanens have been fighting the trojans for nine years when the book starts

Author Biographical Information
the author of the Ilad is Homer. he is one of the greatest of the ancient greek epic poet. his books have great influence on literature. No one knows for sure when he lived some say he lived about 850 bc but others say he lived closer to the trojan war.

Setting: Historical Information
The troyjan war is going on at this time. The war has been going on for at least nine years. it is about the time of the bronze age in greece

Genre
The genre of the book is in a play format to an extant, but it is and epic. An the difference between them is the more discription of what is going on and the is no stage direction in it. the eipc is also considered to be a historical account of what happened

Plot Summary''
the polt is very guessable; The achranens are fighting the trojans for a girl called helen. at fist the gods favor the acharen but then jove ( the king of the gods ) changes his mind and wants the trojans to win. he dose this because of the interfreance fo the gods in his planes. menrva ask Jove for achilles to have vengace for his prize be taken away.

3 Characters
Achilles, Agamemnon, Diomedes, Aias, Odysseus, Nestor, Aias the Lesser, Antilochos, Automedon, Helen, Idomeneus, Kalchas, Menelaos, Patroklos, Aeneas, Hektor, Andromache, Astyanax, Chryseis, Dolon, Glaukos, Hekuba, Helenos, Cassandra, Pandaros, Paris, Poulydamas, Priam, Jove, juno, and menver

4.1 Author's Style
homers styel of writing is very different from todays way of writing. homer uses a great deal of imagery in his writing. he explanse every detail that of what is going on durring the scene. unlike most authers today that only go into very little detail of what is going on in the back round and foce more on the main chariter. Homer also likes to give allusions to many of the other greek ecips.

4.2 Setting
the setting is at Troy durring the bronze age of greece. the city of troy, and all the out laying land to the sea.

4.3 Themes
the thems of the story is war over family. I say this because of the fact that they have been at troy for ten years and they are willing to stay there even longer if needed. also the intervention of the gods was a recurring theme in this book. i say this because of the fact that there is not one thing anyone dose; and the gods act acorrdingly.

4.4 Motifs
burail, war are some of the motifs that are evident in the book. Burail i sa motifs because the acharans and the Trojans both saw it as a very sraked thing to them. they even stoped fighting to barry there dead. War also is very evident because of the book is full of it. they fight vilantly for some thing that is a small trifle compared to the price of the human life that was lost.

4.5 Symbols
the ships of the acharans, and the shild of achilles are smyboles I found in the book. The ships to my were symbols of the greecek trade and navle power. while the shlid of achilles show the protection that was given to them by the gods

4.6 Significance of the Opening/Closing Scenes
the significance of the senes is very easy for you to figure out when you first read them. the opening scene introduces the main chariters, while the last scene shows you the out come of the story with hector dieing and how important he was to the whole epic

4.7 Memorable Quotes

 * 1) 1Rage—Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus’ son Achilles, murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses,hurling down to the House of Death so many sturdy souls,great fighters’ souls, but made their bodies carrion,feasts for the dogs and birds,and the will of Zeus was moving toward its end.Begin, Muse, when the two first broke and clashed,Agamemnon lord of men and brilliant Achilles.


 * 1) 2Remember your own father, great godlike Achilles— as old as I am, past the threshold of deadly old age! No doubt the countrymen round about him plague him now,with no one there to defend him, beat away disaster. No one—but at least he hears you’re still aliveand his old heart rejoices, hopes rising, day by day,to see his beloved son come sailing home from Troy

5 Allusions
in the iliad homer alluds to the jumment of pairs and also the other storys like hurcles; and many other greek epics

6.1 Adaptations
They have made a move called troy based on this book, also they have made this book in many different languages.

7 Reviews the reviews
I found said that it was one of the greatest book every writen, my personal review is that it is a great book the only draw back i found was that it whent into to much detail of what was going on in the back round.

8 Notes''
the only notess i can give you is that you have to sick with the book even through the most uneventful times to get the full meaning that was attended for you to get.

9 References
www.sparknotes.com www.wikipedia.com

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