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This 3 page paper discusses Homer’s use of similes in his extended description of violence in “The Iliad.” Bibliography lists 1 source.
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Discussion The Iliad is a wonderful poem, as is The Odyssey, but they are both dripping with blood. However, the violence is not usually the first thing a reader notices
about them; we get caught up in the stories and the beauty of the language, and its only after we stop to consider what weve read that we recall the
extremely gruesome descriptions of battle that Homer provides. Why, we might wonder, would he do this? Many critics have suggested that part of it has to do with the Greek
idea of the afterlife, which is relatively limited and unpleasant. Heroes went to the Elysian Fields, sinners went to the Underworld where Hades ruled; the worst of the bunch went
to Tartarus. But many spirits simply continued, fading away and losing the memory of who and what they were; a dismal prospect. That is, the Greeks were not looking forward
to a glorious eternity under the care of a loving God, but an eternal drifting through darkness. That made life extremely precious, and taking life a great crime. It may
be that Homer sought to remind his readers of these things by providing a stark contrast between the beauty of life and the ugliness of battle and death. Homers
soldiers do not die cleanly and quickly; they suffer, they claw the ground; they cry out and moan in pain. They are examples of precisely how awful it is to
be mortally wounded, and why war is a thing to be avoided at all costs. Lets look at the death of Patroclus as a model of the type of thing
Homer describes throughout the poems. Patroclus is Achilles greatest friend (some critics infer that they are lovers), a brave warrior and skilled fighter. He is so good, in fact, that
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