THE ILLIAD
THE ILLIADBy: KONJURE THOUGHTS
Book Review The Iliad The name �Homer� is synonymous with great tales of heroic poetry. Although this genre of poetry hails the distinctness of being �Homeric� it is not certain that Homer himself actually existed. The book Prolegomena ad Hoerum, published in 1795 CE. written by F.A. Wolf, translated �The Homeric Problem�, set in motion numerous debates among scholars concerning Homers existence, and the fact that Homer may have been a group of writers, and not just one man. If we accept that Homer existed, we believe that Homer, was a blind Greek bard, that traveled throughout Ionia reciting his poetry in exchange for room and board. Crawford pg. 2 In this paper I will examine and analyze the use of words that create graphic pictures for the mind, and words that excite the imagination. I will illustrate how the use of such a graphic idiom is still popular today. Although we have entered a new millennium filled with special effects, and computer graphics , many of us continue to appreciate the excitement of the written word from those authors that produce masterpieces. The Iliad does just that. Homer�s use of language evokes the passion of his characters and their heartfelt emotions. The Iliad embodies action at it�s very onset, and although long in content, captures and to an extent , possesses it�s reader. I am sure that it is the style and meter, that Homer uses to convey his thoughts, that make the Iliad such a classic epic. Crawford pg. 3 In the opening lines of the Iliad, words of war capture the reader. Rage-Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus� son Achilles, murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses, hurling down to the House of Death so many sturdy souls, great fighters� souls, but made their bodies carrion, feasts for the dogs and birds, (Homer 122 1-5) It is descriptions, such as these that lure the reader in. Immediately one can see that Achilles, (knowing him or not) is some sort of madman, responsible for taking many lives. Homer wasted no time in the development of the character Archilles. In these lines you are introduced...
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