Haiku

Angues compriment

Laocoonta, stridet

similis taurum

The snakes squeeze

Laocoon, he screams

like the bull

Sinon's story was particularly effective in the way he portrayed Ulysses to the Trojans. The Trojans knew of Ulysses' tricks and Sinon's story played on that. He told the Trojans how Ulysses snuck into the tent of Calchas and bribed him to say that Sinon was to be the one sacrificed to the gods. He did this because it was a way of getting rid of Sinon that no one would question, just like no one questioned the death of Palamedes because he had spoken out about the war. According to Sinon's story Ulysses had all kinds of tricks up his sleeve, and the Trojans knew that first hand. His tears also made his story believable. He cried about his family and what the cruel Greeks would do to them. This made the Trojans feel bad for Sinon, especially because he seemed to hate the Greeks just as much as they did.

Latin Haiku

Subridens, Jovis
aperiet arcana
placare Venum




Smiling, Jupiter
reveals the secrets
to calm Venus

Page 63 Question

The great man in verse 151 reminds me of Aeneas because of the way he has power over the feelings of his men. When Aeneas and his men are stranded in Africa he makes a speech to console them after all the things that they had in the past and just recently gone through. He eases their minds, just like the great man (and the girl in the purple shirt) eased the minds of the rioters. He his his own grief to make them feel better, which shows that he is really the great man.

Haiku

Est exitium

Neptunus est iratus

Vult pacem mare

The Aeneid Haiku

The storm scares them all

The ropes creak and the men call

"Why couldn't we've died?"

Modern Day Epic

Harry Potter has come to be one of the very famous modern day epics. It is a series of 7 books, each one an epic initself, and the first six have been made into movies. First of all, each book is very lengthy, which is a characteristic of an epic. It is about a young wizard, Harry, who after losing his parents finds out that he is a wizard and an evil wizard, Voldemort, is set out to kill him. This may seem silly to some people, but in the book it is a very serious situation. It is life or death and it has national significance to the wizarding community. If Voldemort is not stopped he will kill Harry and anyone else who is not a pureblood wizard or witch. In the last book there is a huge war in which the hero, Harry Potter, ends up winning. It is also composed of many individual fights between Harry and Voldemort. Harry Potter is considered an epic because of all these characteristics.