Comparing The Shipwrecked Sailor And Iliad

Shipwrecked Sailor and Homer Iliad are a history poems that happened in ancient Egypt 2200 B.C.E and ancient Greece (12th – 18th) century BC. Each poem tells a mythical history. The Shipwrecked Sailor is a story about a sailor who returns home after surviving in an island alone for three days. He reports his venture to the official king. He told him about how he was brought to isle by a wave of the sea and how he met the serpent who called himself the Lord of Punt. The sailor talked to the king about his conversion with the snake until the ship get fixed and be able to go home again. Shipwrecked Sailor came from the ancient Egypt. Iliad is an epic poem by the ancient Greek poet Homer, which talks about of the last days of Trojan War and the

This epic shows how Egyptian loved their land when the sailor returns home after he saw the magical island and full of food. But the sailor was afraid of the lord’s anger because of his failure. In this moment the author shows how was the sailor smart by telling the lord emphasis words before telling what’s really happened to him and the other sailors, which makes the lord’s mood changed. “There are many comedic elements throughout the story - not least of which are the responses by the long-suffering master - but as nothing is known of the origin of the tale or the ancient response to it one cannot tell how it was received by an Egyptian audience. One can imagine, however, they enjoyed it just as much as any modern audience would; the love of a good story told well is ageless “Mark. This epic shows how were the Egyptians smart when the sailor could lose his life if he doesn’t give a convincing word when the lord told him that "Thy heart continues still its wandering words! but although the mouth of a man may save him his words may also cover his face with confusion. Will you do then as your heart moves you? This that you will say, tell quietly” Tappan. The sailor told the lord every single detail about his adventure. Starting by telling the purpose of the sailing “I was going to the mines of Pharaoh, and I went down on the sea in a ship of one hundred and fifty cubits long and forty cubits wide, with one hundred and fifty sailors of the best of Egypt who had seen heaven and earth” Tappan. Then what happen in