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This 5 page paper explores the way in which Homer weaves the theme of death throughout his work The Iliad. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. Death in The Iliad
Inc. by K. Von Huben 10/2010 Please Introduction Homers great epic works, The Iliad and The Odyssey are the original adventure
stories; Indiana Jones has nothing on Odysseus, Achilles, Ajax and the rest of the characters who struggled on the plain before the walls of Troy. This paper considers the way
in which Homer depicted death in The Iliad. Discussion The Iliad, not to put too fine a point on it, is a bloodbath. It recounts, in detail, the ten
year conflict known as the Trojan War, and it does so in very realistic terms. Death is ever-present, and it is not peaceful and serene, occurring in a sterile hospital
room or at home surrounded by loved ones. It is violent, brutal, and overwhelmingly physical. Again and again, Homer describes the effect of a spear thrust or a blow from
a sword. Heres Homers description of the death of Amphius: "Now giant Ajax speared him through the belt, / deep in the guts the long, shadowy shaft struck / and
down he fell with a crash as glorious Ajax rushed / to strip his armor ... He dug his heel in the corpse, yanked his own bronze out / but
as for the dead mans burnished gear-no hope" (Book 5, 707-710, 712-713). There are a number of things happening in this excerpt that make death a messy reality. First, of
course, is Homers word choice. He picks strong action words that convey the violence of the battle: "speared," "deep," "guts," "struck," "crash," "rushed," "dug," and "yanked." But beyond that, consider
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