YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Comparing Holden and Homer
Essays 481 - 510
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...
In five pages this book's references to Hell are examined. Three sources are cited in the bibliography....
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...
Achilles grief offends the gods. Hera argues that since Achilles is the son of the a goddess, he deserves more honor than Hector,...
the theme of hospitality in such situations is emphasized when we recognize that this same theme is repeated many times in the Bib...
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...
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 ...
men encounter comrades who were killed and left unburied, meaning that their spirits are doomed to wander. The first thing that st...
example, he describes the heart-rending scene in which Andromache sees the dead body of her husband Hector being dragged behind Ac...
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 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...
In five pages this paper examines the delays in Odysseus's return to Ithaca and how the hero is at fault for them. There are no o...
In two pages this essay provides a character analysis of Telemachus in an assessement of his maturity. There are no other sources...
In five pages this essay considers the rite of passage Odysseus' son Telemachus takes on the journey to find his father and protec...
In four pages the significance of the hospitality theme in 'The Odyssey' is discussed in examples of King Alkinoos', Melenaus', an...
In five pages this paper presents a thematic analysis of how sacrifice is portrayed in 'The Odyssey.' There are 2 sources cited i...
problem for free. Sparky told Homer the only available time he had was 6 p.m. that evening. Homer agreed, telling Sparky he would ...
terms of time and resources. There are also some potential benefits. There may be cost savings for example providing benefits th...
arguments regarding the lack o of equality and the presence of the glass ceiling, the way that the issue is seen and the ways it i...
the second type of need is that of psychogenic, these are needs that arise from some type of tension, such as the need for recogni...
which is at the "heart of this piece, cannot stand such a strong dose of reality" (Brode 98). There is artificiality in abundanc...