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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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Challenges Were Important 10 More Years Home
484 wordsIn Homer's Odyssey, the main character, Odysseus, emerges as a heroic figure. How ever, in order to be a gero Odysseus must face and overcome numerous emotional, physical and mental hardships. The challenges he endures start at the begining in Ithaca before he went to war at Troy. He had to face many challenges on the day he left ithaca and the way back home to Ithaca to be with his beloved family. The first hardships he endured were to leave his family and first born son, and his kingdom behind...
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First Four Home Life
923 wordsThe story of the Odyssey begins 20 years after Odysseus leaves his home, and his family. The setting is the family home in Ithaka, and our main character (at this point) is Telemachos, son of the great Odysseus. By beginning the story at this time and location rather than focusing straight in on Odysseus's intuition, the reader is given an "inside view" of Odysseus' home life, and from these first 4 books we are given much very valuable background information. One such piece of information is le...
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Friends And Family Future Generations
1,239 wordsIn The Odyssey, there are many important themes. One of the major ones is about memory. Being remembered is very important to the characters in the book. We see that all of the characters desire to be remembered, and many of them even ask to be remembered. In the Odyssey, there are many examples that show how important being remembered was to them, in fact it was the thing they cared about the most to be done after they passed away. Being remembered was an honor, and a way of living on. Telemach...
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Death And Rebirth Light And Dark
1,384 wordsThe Odyssey, by Homer, is a classical piece of Greek literature. Throughout The Odyssey, the Blind Bard makes use of many literary techniques in order to lend meaning to the poem beyond its existence as a work of historic fiction and aid his readers in the comprehension of the tale. One of these techniques is the use of motifs. A motif is a recurring theme that is used throughout the work. In The Odyssey, Homer makes use of many motifs including eating / drinking , Odysseus anger, bathing, and d...
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Honor Befitting One Epitaph Leader Of Men Eumaios
1,242 wordsThe Tale of Eumaios The ancient Greek society was a culture where the Fates and immortal gods hold reign over a mans life. Ones personal characteristics, including occupation, were as mutable as ones lineage. For this reason noble Eumaios, leader of men, the swineherd, stands out in the Odyssey as a character who exists above his place as a humble servant. He is conspicuous from his first appearance when Homer applies to him the epitaph leader of men (Od. 15: 23) and continues as Homer refers to...
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Athena Tells Fathers Condition Telemachos
848 wordsBecoming a man. The goal attempted by all young boys, but achieved by few. Around the age of fifteen the dream of going on some adventure and risking death to prove bravery is envisioned in our heads and we go crazy. We scan every moment of our teenage lives for a chance at manhood and in some form or other we all get one. Usually it isnt an extravagant adventure as wed like, but some menial task we have to settle for. For Telemachos, on the other hand, its the quest of a lifetime. To sail off i...
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Return Home 5 Ln
885 wordsThe majority of the Odyssey is an account of Odysseus adventures (or, rather, misadventures) trying to reach his homeland of Ithaka. Several of these adventures are false homecomings, the most prominent of which is his imprisonment on Kalypso s island. This false homecoming is strikingly different from what one would expect of Odysseus real homecoming, but similar enough for parallels to be drawn between the two. Homer uses this false homecoming to foreshadow Odysseus true homecoming. Throughout...
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Make The Decision Carol Gilligan
2,986 wordsIn her essay Penelope as Moral Agent, Helene Foley attempts to discuss Penelope, a major character in Homers the Odyssey, in terms of Classical Athenian portrayals of women and, as her title suggests, in terms of what she calls a moral agent. In her introductory paragraph she lays out guidelines as set down by Aristotle and his contemporaries that constitute a moral agent: the character must make an ethical and moral decision on which the actions turns? without critical knowledge of the circumst...
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Father And Son Trojan War
2,552 wordsIn The Odyssey written by Homer and translated by Richard Lattimore, several themes are made evident, conceived by the nature of the time period, and customs of the Greek people. These molded and shaped the actual flow of events and outcomes of the poem. Beliefs of this characteristic were represented by the sheer reverence towards the gods and the humanities the Greek society exhibited, and are both deeply rooted within the story. In the intricate and well-developed plot of The Odyssey, Homer h...
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Pride Is Seen Through Telemachos Quest For Pride Father
726 wordsQuest for Pride Pride is a central theme throughout many epics and novels. For any heroic character to succeed in their quest they must have a strong sense of inner pride. In many cases the hero does not already have that pride, but obtains it through the obstacles set before them. If pride is not obtained, the hero will fail. In the epic The Odyssey, Odysseus has already obtained his sense of inner pride. Therefore, the quest for inner pride is seen through Telemachos. In the beginning of The O...
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Furious To Behead Caught The Knees Of Odysseus Phemios
792 wordsDuring the Odyssey, many singers are mentioned. They told stories of the past and the stories about the gods to entertain the household they were singing for. Singers were well respected because they had a divine gift from the Muses. Phemios and Demodokos are two examples of singers in the poem. Phemios was a singer in the house of Odysseus. While Odysseus was away in battle and his journey home, Phemios was made to sing at Odysseus s house by Penelope s suitors. A herald put the beautifully wro...
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