What was the cause of the quarrel between Agamemnon and Achilles in the Iliad? How does Achilles kill Hector in The Iliad? Is strength important in The Iliad? In the Iliad, who was Achilles' best friend? What happened to Odysseus in the Odyssey?
How did Agamemnon die? How does Sir Gawain and the Green Knight become friends in the book Sir Gawain and the Green Knight? What happened upon Beowulf's return to his homeland? How does Beowulf deal with death? How do Beowulf's characters deal with death?
He envies Agamemnon for his position as a "warrior-king," calling him a "blessed child of fortune and favor." As king of the Trojans, Priam isbothered by his not having a duality of roles. ... Priam knows that Troy's destruction is imminent, and as a father, he does not want to ...
What went wrong:After learning (by way of prophecy) that he will one day be king, Macbeth is gripped by an urge to claim his crown sooner rather than later. He commits regicide, killing his friend King Duncan, and his growing paranoia leads him to murder several others to cover up the...
The Greeks are referred to in the Iliad as either 'Achaeans', 'Danaans' or 'Argives', rather than by the term 'Greeks' in the collective sense. In the Iliad the Greek army is led by Agamemnon, king of Mycenae; each contingent has its own leader and originates from a different geogra...
poem attributed to Homer that tells the tale of the hero Odysseus's attempts to return home to Ithaca after the end of the 10 year Trojan War. The recounting of his adventures after the war are intermixed with what is currently happening in the poem and what happened at...
We commonly explain occurrences by saying one thing happened because of — due to the cause of — something else. But we can invoke very different sorts of causes in this way. For example, there is the because of physical law (the ball rolled down the hill because of gravity) and the ...
over a golden apple, sometimes referred to as the Apple of Discord. It all happened at the wedding of Peleus and Thetis, when Eris, goddess of strife and discord, was not invited. She was turned away and in retaliation, threw a golden apple amongst the goddesses there “to the fairest....
Unassuming catering salesmen Jim Ferguson falls through a time hole to 1917 where he saves the life of dashing Royal Flying Corps pilot James "Biggles" Bigglesworth after his photo recon mission is shot down. Before he can work out what has happened, Jim is zapped back to the 1980s... ...
However, setting aside the dark political implications, the “groomer” discourse is also doing major damage to the important work of preventing child sexual abuse. Something similar happenedwhen the QAnon conspiracy #SaveTheChildren campaign disrupted real anti-sex trafficking efforts. The people workin...