Private Motivations for War in The Iliad
Wars are often complex in nature and are fought for diverse reasons.
In the Iliad, powerful gods, great nations, and heroic people all fight for
different reasons. Each has private motivations to fight the war. These
private motivations are of special interest, because they help define the
consequences and outcomes of the war. The universal war of the gods, social
war of the Greeks and Trojans, and the war for Achilles' honor are private
motivations of the Trojan war. These private motivations seem to influence
and shape each other in many distinct ways.
The universal war between the gods over the apple of discord
consequently lead to the social war between the Greeks and the Trojans. For
example, Aphrodite promised Paris that he could have the most beautiful woman in
the world if he gave the apple of discord to her. He did so, and decided to go
and get his reward. Unfortunately, the most beautiful women in the world, Helen,
was the wife of the Greek King Menelaus. The abduction of Helen by Paris lead
to the Trojan war. The promise made by Aphrodite to Paris in order to get the
apple of discord resulted in the abduction of Helen and the start of the Trojan
war. Therefore, Aphrodite, in the universal war, set the stage for the social
war of the Greeks and Trojans. Another time the gods influenced the social war
was when the Greeks and Trojans had a one on one battle to decide the outcome of
the war. The Greeks chose King Menelaus and the Trojans chose Paris. Menelaus
and Paris fought, but when Paris was about to be killed he was whisked off by
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...s social war lead to Achilles'
war to redeem his honor. Achilles' private conquest then had a enormous effect
in giving the Greeks victory of the social war. The resolution of the social
war eventually lead to peace on Mt. Olympus. The three private motivations of the
Iliad thus created, carried out, and concluded the Trojan war.
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The Trojan War is one of the most known battle or war in history, if not the most known. It was a very, very long war, but there was one main source or reason of conflict that drove it to last so long, it seemed endless. Paris, a Trojan prince, was promised a wife as fair as the goddess of beauty by Aphrodite herself. The particular woman she promised was already married to a Greek King by the name of Menelaus. This started not only tension between the Greeks and Trojans but also anger because they were recently married.Helen should have returned to the Greeks for a few reasons that could have led to a shorter war, or even no war.First off, Greek King Menelaus is her rightfully wedded husband. The war would have been totally prevented if a couple of decisions were better made. Finally, she never really was in love with Paris. It was all manipulated by Aphrodite.
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drive to conquer the Trojan army with or without the aid of Achilles. In doing
The Greek gods were not only intimately involved in the action of the Trojan War, they were also the impetus for the war. Although the overt cause of the war was Paris' abduction of Helen, this act was the result of quarrelling goddesses. The Trojan prince Paris was forced to choose the fairest amongst the goddesses Hera, Aphrodite, and Athena. Each goddess attempted to sway Paris with offerings, and Aphrodite's temptation was Helen; this leads to the war and the immortal alliances that overshadow its mortal activities. The story that the poem implicitly addresses is of the Achaen king Agamemnon and his daughter Iphigenia. The Achaen forces have gathered at Aulis before mounting their attack on Troy when one of Artemis' stags is killed; this, coupled with Agamemnon's boasting of the act, is why "Artemis is offended" (51). In retaliation, the goddess imprisons the troops at Aulis by preventing the wind from powering their fleet. In order to appease the goddess and begin the war, Agamemnon sacrifices his own daughter Iphigenia as "the child" who will become "the victim of Aulis." Although Artemis intervenes and makes Iphigenia one of her priestesses, only the goddess knows that Iphigenia escaped death.
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