Achilles can be described as a Tragic Hero in many ways. He was brave and had great strength but, he was also prideful and lacked control with his emotions, and in all the label of a tragic hero fits him. A Tragic hero is “a literary character who makes an error of judgment or has...
He, like Zeus with Sarpedon, had it in his power to choose a path that would lead to survival. However, he chose the path that led to death, and died in the way he was fated to. The Iliad asks the question that Antigone presented as well, are our choices predetermined to facilitate...
Achilles allows Patroclus to rejoin the battle with the Myrmidons because young and impressionable Patroclus had been moved by the words of Nestor when visiting the Achaean front lines. Upon his tragic death, Achilles redirects his anger instantly. “…the spirit within does not drive me to go...
Odysseus and Diomedes take matters into their own hands; they silently cross the line during the night and force a guard to describe the Trojan camp in detail. With this knowledge, they manage to kill the king of Thrace (a Trojan ally) and steal his fabled white horses. Legend had it, ...
His mother Thetis had prophecied to him that if he pulled out of the Trojan War, he would enjoy a long and a happy life. If Achilles fought, however, he would die before the Walls of Troy but assure an everlasting glory, surpassing that of all other heroes. He had made the choice,...
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In the staged repair group, patients who underwent peroneus longus muscle tendon transfer with the lateral calcaneal artery in the second stage had better postoperative follow-up ankle joint function than did those who underwent flexor hallucis longus tendon transfer ( P AOFAS <0.001; P ATRS <...
5A) was interrupted, and the two severed ends had retracted to form an empty cavity. Numerous hematomas were seen at the fracture site. In the cell group (Fig. 5C), there was a continuous interruption in the Achilles tendon, with small areas of low echo between the striated areas of ...
A survey of the mutation data on proto-oncogenes (Supplementary file 3) identified several cases where exceptionally high rates of recurrent driver mutations involved C > T and G > A mutations of CpG dinucleotides of CpG bearing codons. These oncogenes had very high fN* values in bo...
(Briseis was a woman thatAchilleshad received as a war prize). This is the reason whyAchilleswas raged at Agamemnon. In a rage‚Achilleswants to kill all of the Trojans‚ especially Hector‚ the best Trojan warrior. Patroclus‚Achilles’ best friend goes out to the battle field as...