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Three-fourths of the way through The Iliad, in Book 18, you'll find one of the most famous examples of ekphrastic verse in Western literature. As the poem ends, Hephaestos finishes his work and limps away and Thetis has her first full look at the shield. The seventh stanza returns to Thetis and Hephaestos. The images she expects—olive branches, sacrificial animals ornamented with flowers—are from the classical world, and the language of these stanzas invokes an earlier time, with phrases such as “untamed seas,” “ritual pieties,” “Libation and sacrifice,” and “flickering forge-light.”. In the first stanza, Thetis looks to see how Hephaestos is decorating the shield. Thetis looks this time for athletes and dancers, symbols of strength and agility. The other city is shown under siege by an invading army. The people in Thetis’s imagined scenes are strong, adventurous, pious, and happy. There is also a picture of ''young girls and young men, in all their light-hearted innocence,'' picking grapes from a vineyard as music softly plays. In the very center, there's a picture of the universe: ''the earth upon it, and the sky, and the sea's water, / and the tireless sun, and the moon waxing into her fullness'' (583-594). succeed. In the last line of the poem, the narrator points out something that neither Thetis nor Hephaestos knows: that Achilles himself will soon die in the war against Troy. As a member, you'll also get unlimited access to over 79,000 You can test out of the - Role & Character Analysis, Biological and Biomedical Not sure what college you want to attend yet? In other words, the shield captures, in a nutshell, the basic values and characteristics of their world.
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With the entire world represented on Achilles’ shield, Achilles is singled out as one of the foremost representatives of humanity, unique in his strength. Study.com has thousands of articles about every imaginable degree, area of The Iliad is about the Trojan War, but it is primarily about the war as it is affected by Achilles' wrath, or anger.
With weddings and wedding feasts in one… But circling the other city camped a divided army gleaming in battle-gear.
Achilles is the main character, and his inaction, or withdrawal from the fighting, is crucial to the plot.
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