The Iliad of Homer

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History

 

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Oscar H

 

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August 9, 2015

 

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University

 

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C

 

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They fight for honor. The characters in the Iliad are motivated by their own form of honor, or arete, known similarly as the Homeric Code. And it is because of this code that the Trojan War began. The characters in this story are shown to possess arete, but some have different ideas as to how vastly and to what rate it should be respected...
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And because of this, many a man's honor is disturbed. The Homeric Code can be defined as "unwritten rules that guide the conduct of the Homeric Heroes." For the Homeric Heroes, success means survival and greater honor; failure means death and removal from the struggle for honor. What the Heroic code means is that honor is more important than life itself...
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