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Temptations Of Odysseus
1,568 wordsTemptations of Odysseus Odysseus: a hero in every way. He is a real man, skilled in the sports, handy with a sword and spear, and a master of war strategy. Most of the challenges and adventures in his return voyage from Troy show us this even if we had no idea of his great heroic stature and accomplishments in the Trojan war. I found in my reading of the Odyssey that most of the trials the gods place upon him are readily faced with heroic means. These challenges are not necessarily welcomed by O...
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Story Of Odysseus Journey
1,147 wordsHome is Where the Heart is In life we all struggle and search for happiness and love. We are in a constant pursuit to find and hold onto the things that we hold dear to ourselves. This is much like the book The Odyssey. Odysseus was on a search to find his way back to the things that brought him peace and happiness. The book was very much like our own lives and though this supposedly happened hundreds of years ago, this is the same journey we live through. From the beginning of the story it seem...
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Maximus Odysseus
1,161 wordsMaximus and Odysseus While watching the film Gladiator with my girlfriend I realized the striking similarities that heroes share. However, I always wonder who is more of a hero. The definition or hero is a person noted for feats of courage or nobility of purpose, especially one who has risked or sacrificed his or her life. So let us compare the two heroes as the dictionary defines them. In the end I hope to be able to define who is a greater hero. Maximus was a great warrior in the Roman legion ...
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Way Home
233 wordsOdysseys is angry that he has been betrayed by Circe and threatens her to tell him the way home. She tells him that only Tarsiers know the way home. He must go to the underworld to find him. Back in Ithica men taunt Telemachus with his fathers death. Odysseus finds Tarsier, and he tells him that he is blinded by the journey not the passage which is his life and that he must fallow the star and he will run into 2 beasts, Scylla and Charyladis. On the way out of hell he sees his mother. The ship t...
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Warriors Desires
3,767 wordsThe Development of Desire The development of the male warrior, throughout literature, has a direct relationship with the development of western civilization. The attributes a warrior holds, fall respectively with the attributes that each society held as valuable. These characteristics, started by societies ideals, become the warrior's only reasons for continuing their heroics. The ideals however do change with each warrior. At the beginning we have a warrior with one mission, which later the war...
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Long For The Sight Of Home
356 wordsOdyssey - Passage: Book V lines 224-233 "My lady goddess, here is no cause for anger. My quiet Pen'e lop^e -- - how well I know -- - would seem a shade before your majesty, death and old age being unknown to you, while she must die. Yet, it is true, each day I long for home, long for the sight of home. If any god has marked me out again for shipwreck, my tough heart can undergo it. What hardship have I not long since endured at sea, in battle! Let the trial come". (Book V lines 224-233) Odysseus...
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Gracious Hosts And Guests
932 wordsEach culture treats strangers and guests with distinct differences from every other culture. One of the most hospitable cultures was that of the ancient Greeks, exemplified in Homer's The Odyssey by both gracious hosts and guests. In Greece and The Odyssey, not only was good hospitality etiquette expected, but the added pressure from the conviction that the gods would punish the host if guests were treated without respect (whether they were poor or rich) further compelled excellent manners. The ...
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Wedding Bed Of Odysseus And Penelope
632 wordsThe Odyssey: Book 23, The Great Rooted Bed Tone: The tone in the beginning of this book is very frantic; it starts out with Eurycleia rushing through the hallways and into Penelope's room to inform her of the good news. The old nurse tells Penelope that Odysseus is indeed back home to Ithaca. At first Penelope couldn't believe it but when she was reassured she cry tears of joy. The tone then shifts to a calmer one, even a little harsh. When Penelope sees Odysseus in person she seems to show no e...
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Strongest By Poseidons Rage Towards Odysseus
687 wordsVengeance in the Odyssey Vengeance is the main theme in the Odyssey, it is what all the conflict in the story is for every conflict in the story is caused because of each characters thirst for vengeance. The three characters that show this most greatly are as follows. Poseidon through his constant punishment of Odysseus throughout the story. Secondly Telemachus' need to make the suitors pay for disrespecting his house as well as his mother and the lack of his ability to become or even be seen as...
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Odysseus And The Trojans
2,167 wordsBoth the Odyssey and the Aeneid share some similarities as epics; both describe the trials of a heroic figure who is the ideal representative of a particular culture. There are even individual scenes in the Aeneid are borrowed from the Odyssey. Yet, why are Odysseus and Aeneas so unlike one another The answer is that the authors lived in two different worlds, whose values and perceptions varied greatly of a fundamental level. To illustrate, two common ideas woven into the Odyssey are custom and ...
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Next Few Lines Odysseus
1,137 wordsIn the selected passage of book five, there are many different themes present. Many of these themes can only be appreciated once you look deeper into the meaning of the text and take the whole book into account. These passage from the book five describes Odysseus actions once he has washed up on shore after eighteen days at sea from the island of Kalypso. He exhausted an old tired and broken man and it takes all the energy he has left to find shelter and sleep. Immediately in line 474 a major th...
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Homer's Odyssey
966 wordsA Common Thread While outwardly similar, the characters Aeneas and Odysseus are inwardly as different as the authors that brought them to life. The respective views of the authors societies on gender, race, and social conduct are seen throughout the epics in the characterization and interaction of their heroes. Despite these differences, however, there remain certain parallel themes in the two works that build off of the similarities and differences in the plot structures: honor, the role of fat...
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Telemakhos In Every Way
737 wordsEarly in the Odyssey we see Telemakhos as a rash, untrained boy. He clearly is not Odysseus' equal as a host, leader, or fighter. However, as the book goes on we see Telemakhos become more and more like his father, in every respect as he is taught and guided by some of the best examples he could have, Athena, Nestor, and Menelaos. By the end of the fight with the suitors we see him in a new light, he has matured from the youth we saw to the man he should be. Telemakhos tries to emulate his fathe...
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Obstacle For Odysseus Journey Back Home
1,358 wordsThe roles of women play an essential and critical part of the epic poem, The Odyssey. There are two main roles that the female figures play, one being the good woman and the other being the seductress. Although women were considered subordinate to the men, the role of the good woman offers aid and pity to the male figures, such as Odysseus, that need it throughout the story. The character of a seductress is exhibited by most of the female figures. By taking on traits / qualities of a seductress,...
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Telemakhos About His Father Odysseus
817 wordsThroughout the first four books of The Odyssey Telemakhos has clearly encountered numerous life changes, but the most significant of these life changes would be the psychologically growing emotions and faith in which he now has for his father. It is because of this that Telemakhos goes on an epic journey not only to find his father but also to find out about his purpose in life (who he is as a human). When Odysseus left home, Penelope and Telemakhos had gone through much suffering ever since the...
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Odysseus Home
1,770 wordsThe Women of The Odyssey In Homer's The Odyssey, the hero Odysseus has several different relationships with female figures who aid, blackmail, love, kidnap, seduce, or tempt him. Odysseus basically either loves these women, or he has mixed emotions about them. Among his loves are Penelope and Athena. He likes the Princess Nausicaa, but has mixed love / hate emotions for the goddesses Kalypso, Kirke, and the Sirens. Even though it has been about twenty years since Odysseus has seen his wife, Pene...