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This essay pertains to "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey" by Homer, the ancient Greek poet and the worldview and cultural values that a...

(Thorburn 370). This is the custom that plays a prominent role throughout the Telemachy and the Odyssey as a whole. The Telemach...

and marginalized in both classical and modern literature, one must first understand how the prevailing viewpoint of women as funda...

This essay focuses on the role that hospitality plays in Homer's The Odyssey. Three pages in length, no other sources are cited. ...

Introduction The ancient stories of Gilgamesh and Ulysses in Homers Odyssey are classic tales that allow the reader to glimpse wh...

be the tradition that developed in Greece and has been handed down in the West, as opposed to works that come from the East. The W...

his disposal beyond his huge physical size. It would seem no human could be safe against this creature that could easily pierce o...

Ithaca and kept him away from his wife Penelope and his son Telemachus. Cast adrift on a ship with only his crewmembers for compa...

in the ideal image of a male hero or warrior. In both cultures the people were founded in a patriarchal way of life, seeing man as...

In seven pages this paper discusses the impact of technology upon humankind as considered in H.G. Wells' novels The War of the Wor...

reader how "everything well stowed, the wine in jars, and the barley meal, which is the staff of life" which indicates that wine r...

was time to allow Odysseus to return home. Should he be allowed to go back to Ithaka to be reunited with his wife Penelope and hi...

Ulysses is clearly at the mercy of the gods and goddesses to some extent. He cannot seem to simply go home, but...

that Aegisthuss death is certainly deserved, "But my heart breaks for Odysseus, / that seasoned veteran cursed by fate so long -- ...

not something he will believe as he has already made a choice to be a shepherd and not a priest which is what was determined for h...

this historical puzzle dating back to the novice citizen investigations to the more scientific and sophisticated Illinois River Va...

having given his word, feels that he has no choice but to keep it, even though he fears, rightly, that the boy will end in disaste...

he rolls a huge boulder across the opening to the cave. Polyphemus eats two of Odysseuss men and it is clear that he plans to make...

observes a boatman named Charon who is transporting the souls of the dead across the river. There are "hollow groans, and shrieks...

rested for two days, then sailed on again, but where blown off course once more by the North Wind (Homer). They ended up in the la...

and the goddess shows this with her actions throughout the narrative. Therefore, examination of the Odyssey demonstrates that the ...

13 31 Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, ...

Cimmerians and their cloudy city at our backs, Turning our faces instead toward life, toward home, Defying the goddess of the is...

also notes that even when she met with her husband near the end she still did not run into his arms, remaining cautious and loyal ...

among all the Gods have renown for wit (metis) and tricks" (The Museum of the Goddess Athena). As one can see, Athena does not lov...

born to Mary, a virgin, lived among men, preached for three years, was crucified and rose from the dead. He did this to save human...

about the boundaries and concerns of civil, political and religious justice, such as where the jurisdiction of the state can be de...

this he becomes something of a hero, though never truly a hero who completely sacrifices himself for others or for some grand caus...

Shiloh, was captured by the Philistines for seven months, and then, returned to the Israelites, was kept in the village of Kiriath...

in a box or in the homeless shelter, and begged for loose change. Starving, with no hope, he reasoned that the lowest paid worker ...