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In the fishbowl, a connection was made between the war and a football team. I had been wondering what Agamemnon's purpose in the book and why he was in it when he did almost nothing. Then someone mentioned a football team, and I had made a connection. Agamemnon was like the "coach" of the Greeks. Even though the coach does not actually play, people still highly respect him. Then the other heroes and warriors are the actual players of the "team". The heroes would be the quarterbacks, and the warriors would be the linebackers. In war, some of these heroes or warriors get tackled or taken out by the opposing team. Now the audience are the civilians that sit off to the sides and watch and listen to everything that happens. They support some of the "plays" or the strategies that the team uses to win the game or war.

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The beginning of "//__The Essential Iliad__//" was highly confusing to me and difficult to read. This video explained most of the beginning of the book. This helped me understand why some things in the end of the book happened because of the beginning of the book. It also helped me determine who was on what side, because that was an issue I had, because there were so many characters.

This picture reminded me of all the awful and gruesome things that happened in the Trojan War. The last two lines reminded me of the line from the book where it talked about a warrior gouging someone else's eyes out. I think that Homer wrote that part in the book because he wanted to explain all the horrors and terrors of not only the Trojan War but war in general.

This is a picture of Achilles right before he kills Hector. If Hector had not been killed by Achilles, then I think that the Greeks would have won the war. Like many characters in throughout the book, Hector got a big head and decoded that he could take on Achilles himself. If only Hector had taken a couple of more warriors with him, then he might still be alive and possibly could have won the war for the Greeks. Then he could have gotten a big head.

I made a connection between the heroes of the Iliad and Doctor Who. Many characters in the Iliad get a little too bold and decide that they can take out a whole army of soldiers by themselves. These are the heroes that find themselves buried six feet in the ground three days later. In Doctor Who, the main character is the Doctor. He travels through time with a companion and they save Earth and other far-off planets from invading aliens. Throughout the seasons of this fantastic show, the Doctor sometimes gets a little too comfortable and tries to do everything alone. These are usually season finales and that is usually when the Doctor gets killed. Fortunately, the Doctor can regenerate and on goes the series. The Doctor can be like the heroes from the Iliad at times and the outcome is always the same.