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a good person or a bad person, only that he is religious. In another section, much further along in the story, we see Odysseus t...
the theme of hospitality in such situations is emphasized when we recognize that this same theme is repeated many times in the Bib...
This essay pertains to "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey" by Homer, the ancient Greek poet and the worldview and cultural values that a...
this historical puzzle dating back to the novice citizen investigations to the more scientific and sophisticated Illinois River Va...
is important for it illustrates one of the reasons why the hero is determined to go back. Because she is honorable and admirable t...
and the goddess shows this with her actions throughout the narrative. Therefore, examination of the Odyssey demonstrates that the ...
Cimmerians and their cloudy city at our backs, Turning our faces instead toward life, toward home, Defying the goddess of the is...
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...
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...
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...
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...
lay there / lifted up his muzzle, pricked his ears..." (17.317-318). We read that the dog is lying on a dung heap; hes full of tic...
home, as though they own everything. One would perhaps expect Penelope, or Telemachus (the man of the house so to speak), to ins...
story of Odysseus sets him up as a noble man, regardless of what someone may know about Greek codes of conduct. He was a noble man...
Telemachus says: "But come, stay longer, keen as you are to sail, / so you can bathe and rest and lift your spirits, / then go bac...
men encounter comrades who were killed and left unburied, meaning that their spirits are doomed to wander. The first thing that st...
is presented as an outright competition in the story of their contest for recognition as the patron deity of Athens" (65). In Boo...
reacts to the presence of the men by eating two of them, Odysseus attacks and manages to blind Polyphemus by stabbing him in his e...
he will gild her horns as part of the sacrifice (Homer). Such sacrifices were meant as "gifts" to the gods, which were designed to...
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 ...
This essay focuses on the role that hospitality plays in Homer's The Odyssey. Three pages in length, no other sources are cited. ...
(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...
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...
is killed (Virgil, 2009). Paschalis has done a study of some of the semantics in the poem, and suggests that the name "Galaesus"...
Ithaca and kept him away from his wife Penelope and his son Telemachus. Cast adrift on a ship with only his crewmembers for compa...
is clear that each of them has some wish in his mind that he cant articulate; instead, like an oracle, he half-grasps what he want...
Odysseus and Polyphemus (or Cyclops), the protagonist and antagonist in "The Odyssey." Like Odysseus, Todd is banished from his w...
his disposal beyond his huge physical size. It would seem no human could be safe against this creature that could easily pierce o...