YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Comparing Holden and Homer
Essays 451 - 480
IN three pages this paper discusses how Homer depicted women in the epic 'The Odyssey' with Penelope being the primary focus of an...
can defeat death too. His first leg of the journey involves descending into a tunnel-like cave composed of nine terrifying leagu...
In three pages this paper emphasizes Aeneas' and Odysseus' differences as reflected in the works by Virgil and Homer. There is no...
adulthood that lives within his heart. In truth, it is this fear that ultimately compels him to exude the passion and strength th...
of the gods in these works appears to be more focused on generating chaos than introducing peace and tranquility to the universe. ...
and marginalized in both classical and modern literature, one must first understand how the prevailing viewpoint of women as funda...
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...
men encounter comrades who were killed and left unburied, meaning that their spirits are doomed to wander. The first thing that st...
problem for free. Sparky told Homer the only available time he had was 6 p.m. that evening. Homer agreed, telling Sparky he would ...
example, he describes the heart-rending scene in which Andromache sees the dead body of her husband Hector being dragged behind Ac...
but rather it is Poseidon who hates him. Zeus says, "...its the Earth-Shaker, Poseidon, unappeased,/forever fuming against him for...
the world changed forever on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001, when Osama bin Ladens al-Qaeda terrorist network invaded ...
I think of naming, far less telling, / every feat of that rugged man, Odysseus, / but here is something that he dared to do / at T...
this late hour / To save our army from these howling Trojans. / Think of yourself, of the regret you will feel / For harm that wil...
not tell Polyphemus his name, rather indicating to the Cyclops that his name is "Nobody." When Polyphemus friends respond to his c...
In a more recent translation we note a great deal of anger and a powerful sense of revenge, as we see in the following excerpt fro...
on which he has been marooned for twenty years, it would appear as if his ship would have nothing but smooth sailing back to Ithac...
(2) which struck the coup de grace" (Floyd ucla13.html). As we can see, although Hektor obviously killed Patroklos, he was just on...
a distraction, as a goal, as a guide, and as an agent of social recognition (The Odyssey in Transit, 2000). Odysseus is indeed co...
of resignation which sent young mind after young mind into the coal mines, but there were a few who hoped to change that statistic...
that allows the poem to celebrate or immortalize its national culture (Epic Poetry). The distinguishing characteristics of Homers...
the theme of hospitality in such situations is emphasized when we recognize that this same theme is repeated many times in the Bib...
Achilles grief offends the gods. Hera argues that since Achilles is the son of the a goddess, he deserves more honor than Hector,...
In two pages this paper contrasts and compares the depictions of women and the journeys undertaken by Aeneas and Odysseus in these...
In five pages the epic's final chapter is analyzed with the banquet scene and its significance thoroughly considered....
In four pages the concept of the hero's journey as it manifest itself in these classical works of literature is examined. There i...
In five pages this paper examines how the epic represents Achilles' shield in a consideration of what its importance symbolizes....
on Mount Olympus, where the gods lived. As the Iliad opens, the Trojan War has actually been going on for nine years, but the figh...
In five pages this paper compares these two works in terms of wartime reality portrayals. Two sources are cited in the bibliograp...
In eight pages this paper discusses the epic's glorification of violence in an analysis that also considers gender roles, human na...