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Good Woman Return Home
1,205 wordsThe Role of Women in The Odyssey Women form an important part of the folk epic, The Odyssey. Within the story there are three basic types of women: the goddess, the seductress, and the good hostess / wife . Each role adds a different element and is essential to the telling of the story. The role of the goddess is one of a supernatural being, but more importantly one in a position to pity and help mortals. Athena, the goddess of wisdom, is the most prominent example of the role; Athena has intell...
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Fate And Free Will In The Odyssey
1,371 wordsWhen we look at Greek Mythology we often run into the gods of that era. Sometimes they are merely backdrops to the human element of the story but in stories such as The Odyssey the gods play a prominent if not vital role to the central themes of the story. Fate has a place in the Greek world but its place is not the same as it is in other scenarios or worlds. It is important to understand the word before we discuss it. Fate as far as Greek mythology goes is not just fate. By most standards fate ...
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Family Honor Journey Home
610 wordsIn the intricate and well-developed plot of The Odyssey, Homer harmonized several subjects. One of these subjects was the quest of Telemachos in correlation with the journey of his father. In the beginning of the epic, Odysseus son, Telemachos, is a childish, passive, fearful, and untested boy, but in the end, he has developed into a young man ready to stand by his fathers side and defend his family's loyalty and honor against the suitors. Telemachos path to manhood is directly correlated to the...
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From The Sea Golden Rule
762 wordsThroughout Odysseus' many adventures in his efforts to return home to Ithaca, Homer describes many various cultures that his title character meets along the way. Though many of these cultures could be identified as subcultures of the Greek world, each has unique qualities that separate it from the other cultures. Chief among these qualities is the set of values and morals that serve to define a culture's viewpoint toward life. This is no different in regards to the Phaeacian society on whose lan...
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Archaic Greek Bacillus Odysseus And Agamemnon Troy
1,406 words... proper sovereignty. Before announcing his return, Odysseus, with the help of goddess Athena, cunningly disguises himself as a beggar to learn of life in Ithaka during his long absence. His patience pays off as he is able to cleverly plan and carry out the demise of the evil and wasteful in Book 22. However, his lust for revenge does not blind his good judgement. Odysseus, while slaying the suitors, is confronted by Phemios, the minstrel suitor, who pleads for forgiveness. Mercy, mercy on a s...
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Holy Bible God Makes
1,252 wordsHebrew and Greek attitudes toward killing are similar, but once religion is factored in a remarkable difference is revealed. Early Hebrew citizens were murderous people by nature, much like the Greeks, but had God looking down on them saying to them that killing was wrong. Greek citizens would engage in war and human sacrifices with the gods on their side, and even sometimes the gods would take part in the murdering. The Greek way of life was murderous due to their strong urge to be revengeful, ...
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Son Of Odysseus Someones Footsteps Telemachus
715 wordsFollowing in somebody's footsteps is always a hard task to take. Whether it is following a father, mother, older sibling, or friend, it is always a challenging path to walk. A perfect example of a boy who believes he must wear his fathers shoes is a young man named Telemachus. He is the son of a mighty warrior named Odysseus in the epic story, The Odyssey. In his journey to finding his father, Telemachus confronts many problems that come with his feelings towards his father, and how he must succ...
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Reader Is Left Odysseus Son Telemakhos
660 wordsTelemakhos of The Odyssey Telemakhos, Odysseus son, finally realizes that in order to preserve his estate he must fill in his fathers shoes and grow up. Telemakhos not only needs to do this for himself, but for his father who is still alive. Telemakhos became a man his father would be proud of. Twenty years ago Odysseus left for Troy, leaving Telemakhos without a father figure since he was an infant. He grew up a mommy's boy not knowing his role in the kingdom because Odysseus was far away. Tele...
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Circle Of Hell Epic Of Gilgamesh
1,580 words- - World Lit Book Summaries Gilgamesh The Gilgamesh epic is very interesting and historically important because of its very early position in world literature. It tells us about an actual Sumerian king Gilgamesh of Uruk in Babylonia, on the River Euphrates in modern Iraq. He lived about 2700 B. C. In the epic the deeds of Gilgamesh and his companion, the wild man Enkidu are described. All these stories were composed into a long poem, which is considered as the earliest epic cycle yet known. The...
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Eleven Arguments In Homer Illiad
1,529 wordsEleven Arguments in Homer's Illiad In Homer's Illiad, Odysseus, Phoenix, and Aias use eleven arguments to persuade Achilles to return to the fighting. Through analysis of and reference to the text, I hope to demonstrate that their arguments can be broken into different styles, including reason-based, moral, and emotional, and that some were more or less effective than others. Persuasion is a very important element of the story, whether it is its function, meaning, successes, or failure. In a way...
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Divine Intervention In Odyssey And Oedipus
1,601 wordsDivine Intervention in Odyssey and Oedipus When one ponders the Greek mythology and literature, powerful images invariably come to mind. One relives the heroes's truffles against innumerable odds, their battles against magical monsters, and the gods' periodic intervention in mortal affairs. Yet, a common and often essential portion of a heroic epic is the hero's consultation with an oracle or divinity. This prophecy is usually critical to the plot line, and also to the well being of the main cha...
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Harper Perennial Continental Drift
3,077 wordsOn the surface, Continental Drift and The Odyssey are very different. The two protagonists, Bob Dubois and Odysseus, are as unalike as two men can be. Bob is an average man with an average life. He works for one man so that he can pay bills to others, trying to make what little money is left supply his family with the needs, both real and imagined, that every family has. Odysseus is a mythical figure, the ultimate man. He surpasses his peers in every manly endeavor, ? Then there was no man who w...
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Quot Harper Perennial
3,089 wordsOn the surface, Continental Drift and The Odyssey are very different. The two protagonists, Bob Dubois and Odysseus, are as unalike as two men can be. Bob is an average man with an average life. He works for one man so that he can pay bills to others, trying to make what little money is left supply his family with the needs, both real and imagined, that every family has. Odysseus is a mythical figure, the ultimate man. He surpasses his peers in every manly endeavor, " Then there was no man ...
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Telemachus Odysseus Bard Sings Men
683 wordsHomer s The Odyssey is a story of a valiant and courageous man named Odysseus and his hardy crew of Ithacan sailors. Odysseus sacks cities, vanquishes monsters, and mercilessly taunts and tricks his opponents in order to attain victory for himself. In addition to these great physical feats and intellectual wit, he also sleeps with the most beautiful women on the earth. By today s standards, he is real macho man. Uncharacteristically, however, Odysseus is prone to shedding tears of sorrow. Such a...
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Human Or Mortal Odyssey By Homer Odysseus
521 wordsOdysseus, son of Laertes, was godlike in many ways, but he also showed some human or mortal characteristics. In The Odyssey by Homer, he shows this in a few ways while on his way home to Ithica from the land of the Lotus-eaters, and also when he is home. Either something upsets him like a human would get upset, or he does something a human would do and normally wouldnt see from a god. First, I noticed when he was escaping for the Cyclops cave, he had to get the last word in: If, O Cyclops, /A mo...
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Beginning Of The Play Three Men
1,967 wordsThe heroes in the Odyssey and Hamlet both use deception to achieve revenge against those who have wronged them. However, the manner in which they go about these deceptions is very different between the two. It must also be noted that although revenge is clearly an overwhelming influence in the two stories it is not viewed in a truly positive light in either. In Hamlet the young prince uses deception as a means to bring about his revenge for his fathers murder. The form of his deception is madnes...
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Terms Of Oedipus Odysseus 038 Oedipus Odysseus 038 Love
1,012 wordsHeroism In Terms Of Oedipus, Odysseus &# 038; Heroism In Terms Of Oedipus, Odysseus &# 038; Catullus Heroism: boldness, bravery, courage, daring, fearlessness, fortitude, gallantry, prowess, spirit, valor. This is how the term is described by practically any dictionary or thesaurus accessible by us today. But when we refer it to the three heroes we have studied about during the last two months, it is evident that the word holds a different meaning for each one of them. Its not simply a matter th...
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Epic Hero True Hero
454 wordsOdysseus is a man that embodies the general aspect of an epic hero but does not seem to have the morals of a hero. He fights in an unfair manner, lies to his crew, and he kills for no apparent reason. (Repetition) Odysseus is Superman to the Greeks. (Metaphor) Try to imagine Superman fighting one of his numerous archenemies. Superman fights fair like the bigger man (simile), no matter what. After defeating the monster Superman does not kill it, but takes it to some place that it can live without...
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Doesn T Great Warrior
1,561 wordsIn the middle of Book 9 of Iliad there are six little epic songs, which are the speeches of the three ambassadors, Odysseus, Phoinix, and Aias, and the reply of Achilleus to each one. Trying to persuade Achilleus to rejoin the fighting, all three ambassadors give their speeches. However, it is Phoinix speech that contains the most compelling arguments because his speech is very personal to Achilleus. Odysseus is a spokesman for Agamemnon and therefore speaks first because of his rhetorical skill...
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Oedipus The King Sophocles Oedipus
1,156 wordsSophocles Oedipus the King and Homer s Odyssey both deal on the topic of truth. In both works the character Tiresias, a blind prophet, participates in the different journeys by revealing various truths to the main characters. While the main importance of Tiresias in The Odyssey is to show that truth can be helpful, his importance in Oedipus the King is to attempt to discourage Oedipus on his journey to find the truth because he knows the truth can be negative as well. The first thing that should...
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