Choose a character from the Iliad and analyze his or her journey.
Choose a character from the Iliad and analyze his or her journey. Some questions you might answer for this topic are (optional ): what do specific geographical locations represent for a particular character? What type of journey does the character undergo (psychological, spiritual, physical, martial, romantic, emotional, intellectual – or some combination thereof)? And then Pick a Franciscan value and answers this question: to what extent does the value that you chose show up in the Iliad ? And how it is related to the character , Keep in mind that polytheistic Greece and Rome in the eighth and first centuries B.C.E. had a number of cultural and social differences from St. Francis’ Assisi (Italy) in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries C.E. Some Franciscan values are: compassion, reverence, diversity, peace, respect, service, and joy.
……………………..Answer preview……………………….The paper aims at looking at Achilles, who is one of the major characters from the Iliad and analyze his journey. The character posses superhuman strength and is close to the gods compared to the other characters though he disobeys them eventually “Achilles is still angry and still willful: he declares himself ready to disobey the gods, should he so choose, and he gives Priam instructions as to the precise limits of what he will and will not bear” (Robert, 2001). Achilles is one of the great warriors………………………….