The Views and Importance of Death in Ancient Greece

Topic: Looking at (ONLY) Book 22 and 24 of “Homer’s The Iliad” (File Attached), Identify how the community for which the original source was written or created (The Ancient Greeks) defined death and why they thought death was important.

To approach it, you will first need to focus on what you discover about the source while reading and researching all the relevant documents. You’ll use your original insights as the primary foundation for your essay. Then think about the following questions as well:

1. For whom was this text written, or created originally?
2. What do you know about that ancient community?
3. What do you already know and not know about that community’s approach to death?
4. Think about the “implied audience” of the text. To whom does the author or creator of the piece in question think he or she is talking? Is it a particular person, or a particular kind of person? Is it a group of people? Is it someone in his or her community, or outside it?
5. Why is the author writing, or the creator creating this particular piece?
6. What does the author or creator assume that his or her audience believes about death?
7. What does he or she want them to believe? Is this something different from what they already do believe? If so, why should they change? If not, why are their current beliefs sensible in the eyes of the author?
8. Why does this author or creator bother to deal with the topic of death at all?
9. In light of all these questions, consider again: how does the community for which this text was written or work created define death, and why do they think it is important

DO NOT attempt to address each of these topics one by one, or in bullet-point. You need to compose a complete, synthetic essay. These questions are meant to help you think about how to respond to the essential topic on which you are writing. You don’t have to answer all of them specifically.

You should focus on reliable scholarly, peer-reviewed sources, and you need to cite them properly!! NO PLAGIARISM.