Achilles routs the trojans and splits their ranks, pursuing half of them into the river known to the gods as xanthus and to the mortals as. Composed by abu alqasem ferdowsi over a thirtyyear period and completed in the year 1010, the epic has entertained generations of readers and profoundly shaped persian culture, society, and politics. The bloodbath continues with the trojan forces divided into two fleeing. Then grasped he an elm, shapely and tall, but it fell uprooted and tore away all the bank, and stretched over the fair streams 245 with its thick branches, and.
What do you think may be the mythological significance of this. Theshahnameh, an epic poem recounting the foundation of iran across mythical, heroic, and historical ages, is the beating heart of persian literature and culture. The iliad by homer, part of the internet classics archive. Iliad, book viii, lines 24553, greek manuscript, late 5th, early 6th centuries ad.
Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books youve read. Driving the trojans to the ford of the noble river, the eddying xanthus begot of immortal zeus, achilles there cut their. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of the iliad and what it means. Achilles pursues the trojans to the ford of the river xanthus. Quite a few comments have been posted about the iliad. Homers epic poem the iliad tells the story of the trojan war and the epic heroes and gods, including achilles, hector, odysseus, athena, ares, paris. Whether youve loved the book or not, if you give your honest and detailed thoughts then people will find new books that are right for them. The book analyses the complex structure of the play, its main themes, the relationship between senecas vibrant style and his obsession with dark issues of revenge and regression. If we in these words should recognize the concrete view of the rosy dawn breaking forth over the peaks of mount olympus, the poets viewpoint must be west of the mountain and that is. This lesson will summarize book 21 of homers the iliad, which finds achilles battling a river and many other gods joining the fight. Litcharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in the iliad, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work.