legendary Greek author‚ Homer. The main character is a war hero named Odysseus is very intelligent and really strong but is also portrayed as arrogant and at times a horrible leader at times but he is still a war hero nonetheless. But the times have changed‚ the men who fight in war are no longer worshipped how they were in the ancient times. So with that being said‚ Odysseus would not be considered a hero today. Although Odysseus was a war hero‚ he did not represent justice or equality like heroes
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Thucydides‚ the greatest conflict was the Peloponnesian war between the Athenians and Spartans‚ along with each of their allies. In the opinion of Thucydides‚ the Peloponnesian war was due to the growth of Athens and the fear‚ the growth caused in the Spartans and their allies (Thucydides‚ Book I‚ chapter I). Accounts of events by Thucydides‚ for Francis Cornford‚ are not merely historic‚ but rather works of art. The History of the Peloponnesian War according to Thucydides is artistic through carefully
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have often thought about becoming as archaeologist but I only like to look for things and the rest of it holds little interest for me. Video Review #2 What is Archaeology? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj-Oq8vk3N4 This video is about the definition of archaeology and what it entails. Archaeology is the study of human history and prehistory through looking at artifacts and excavating sites. They spend a lot of time wandering around looking for things but they call this surveying
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and not even a pleasant one; and war is a necessary part of God’s arrangement of the world.” Count Helmuth von Moltke wrote these words in a letter to Dr. J.K. Bluntschli in December of 1880. Von Moltke’s words‚ spoken from his experience in the Franco-Prussian War‚ portray an unusual philosophy. Instead of debating on the ethics of war‚ he speaks of its continuity and necessity to man. His reasoning has inspired an uncommon belief that it is not whether war is right or wrong that holds importance
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How does War Tactics from Homer’s the Iliad differ from War Tactics Today The enduring and growing popularity of Homer’s Iliad offers the most persuasive testimony of all that the vision of life celebrated in the poem still reaches deeply into the human imagination‚ spanning more than two thousand five hundred years. Cultures since Homer’s time have constructed social and personal lives on systems of meaning very different from the harsh demands of the warrior code‚ but the continuing power of
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that I came upon a manuscript by the great historian Thucydides who cut away any nonsense in his writing. To Thucydides‚ the past was something worthy of being seriously studied. His work the History of the Peloponnesian War is a masterpiece. Unfortunately‚ his account of the war‚ which began in 431‚ has only been completed up to the year 411. He may get a bit further in his old age‚ but it is highly unlikely he makes it all the way to the current day in 403 B.C. where history is surely to be made
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cannot live.”- Franklin D. Roosevelt. Power‚ honor and respect‚ or simply love by who ever who choose. In the story of the Trojan war Paris clearly chose love. Little did he know that it would spark rage between the Greeks and the mighty people of Troy. Helen‚ the wife of King Menelaus‚ was put under a spell by the mighty Aphrodite and was practically forced to go with the Trojan prince Paris. Aphrodite cast the spell because Paris was ask to chose who was the prettiest in all of the land. In order
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Later that day there leader wanted to talk to me they said I was a god once again.What we came here was for your land now good bye. “We must start a war ‚” I said to my shipmate. The war will now start we will kill them and take their land. We will strike tomorrow. My shipmates prepared for battle. They began getting their weapons ready. Everyone worked hard and had serious expressions on their faces. Dinner
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Herodotus wrote a history like no other. Through the pages of On the War for Greek Freedom we read a philosophy that is very similar to our own. We read about what it means to be a king‚ a warrior and a Greek or Persian of ancient times. Yet‚ more specifically‚ we read about what it meant to be simply a human being. There are philosophical ideas throughout the book that can be linked to our own ideas within modern day. The life of a human was hard to live then. They were shot down by the gods if
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American school hierarchy‚ also described as having a lack of self control‚ aggressive‚ unintelligent‚ and short tempered‚ Jocks are definitely a strong presence on the high school and college scene‚ and it would be fitting that Ares‚ the Greek god of war be associated with jocks. Ares is representative of the jock archetype for his relationship with Aphrodite‚ his physical strength‚ and lack of rational thought. Ares is well known to many classical authors as the lover of Aphrodite‚ even if Aphrodite
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