The Odyssey, one of the most well known epic stories Introduces Odysseus, the King of Ithaca. This story demonstrates Odysseus’s physical and intellectual strength. Striving to return home after 20 years of his treacherous journey, he uses strength, skill, and superior ability to overcome his troubles. Although he faced numerous obstacles and fought many battles, he made it appoint to get home to his kingdom through his physical ability, intellectual insight, and overcoming his epic flaw.…
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In the epic poem, The Odyssey by Homer, The hero Odysseus displays many heroic traits that make him an epic hero. The Odyssey is about Odysseus journey home after the Trojan War. On his way back home, he harms a Cyclops’s eye, so Poseidon becomes very angry and make Odysseus’s trip extremely difficult. Odysseus encounters many monsters and his entire crew perishes. When he finally returns home after 20 years, Athena helps him reunite with his son and kill all on the suitors that have made themselves at home in his house with his wife. Some of the many characteristics that Odysseus shows throughout his journey may include courage, leadership and curiosity.…
A characteristics of an epic hero demonstrated in Homer epic poems was the interference of supernatural beings either as allies or enemies. Ancient Greeks society believed in gods and goddesses who live above Mount Olympus and watch over mortals below. The Greeks believed that these gods and goddesses interfered with life below Olympus. This is seen in both Homers poems the Iliad and the Odyssey, where the gods interfered throughout the stories. In the Iliad, the gods interfered in both side of the war, by favoring who they were going to help. When Agamemnon did not return Chryseis, her father a Trojan high priest turned to Apollo for help. In turn, Apollo sent a plague throughout the Greek army. When Hector took Achilles armor from Patroclus,…
The world changes every day. The governments, technology, medicine, the internet, etc. Why is that? It’s all because of people. The choices are all made by humans whether for better or worse, will predict the rest of the future. There are people that have a bigger influence, a greater power to make these choices like governments, unions, presidents, dictators, queens, and kings. In the epic poem “The Odyssey” a long lost King, Odysseus, has been changing these choices to regain power after his long treacherous voyage home from war.…
The Odyssey was one of the most action filled books i think i have ever read. now i don't like reading very much, in fact i hardly ever read and i couldn't wait to get back to class to read more of The Odyssey. The Odyssey is a story of a guy who has about a 20 year struggle to return home to is wife and son after fighting in the trojan war. Odysseus faces many obstacles on his journey home such as the Cyclops island, The sirens island and Calypso's island.…
During the Odyssey alot of good advice is given to one another. Unfortunatley this good advice is usually ignored and results is disaster. Due to this theres many unfortunate events during this story just on the act of stubborness.…
Oddysey by Homer is an epic about the Odyssey .Odyssey is about Odyyseus is tryna return to ethika to his wife and son before he get a beard .In Odyssey by Homer clearly develops Odyssey as an epic hero . he is a great warrior , he is humble , and he faces supernatural foes and receives supernatural help .…
Throughout the first four books of The Odyssey Homer described the way the suitors consume everything in Odysseus’ house and bully Telemachus around rendering immediately as a vulnerable character in comparison to his great father. This gives a sign to the leader that Telemachus being a main character will have to accomplish something. For control of the house, Athena sent Odysseus on more adventures and sent Telemachus on his telemachy which means coming of age. It was time for Telemachus to grow up. Even though his departure from his house and Odysseus’ departure from Calypso’s island are written at different times in the book they both left almost simultaneously. A father’s need for a son is very important factor in ancient Greek culture. It represented the continuation of your lineage and when one was so powerful and liked as Odysseus was being a king it was naturally seen that he would raise a strong and mighty child. Not being there to raise one or not having a son can be a root of cataclysm. Both, returning at the Swineherd’s house around the same time, but this time wiser, Athena sent Telemachus and Odysseus on parallel quests using Telemachus’ telemachy in the first four books as a comparison of growth in maturity and wisdom in Odysseus’ return to Ithaca. And as it turns out, fathers are not so different compared to their sons.…
In ancient Greek religion, one belief was when someone dies he needed to receive at…
The following quote “Why do we fall? So we can pick ourselves back up,” means everyone makes mistakes, but these mistakes help one grow and learn. At any point in time, everyone faces a problem or tragedy, because that’s just life. Those are the moments in life you learn a lot from, and grow as a person.…
9) Who were the Cicones and what does it sound like Odysseus did to them? What did they do to him and his men in return?…
In the Odyssey, temptation is defined as hunger- both literal hunger (temptation for food) and figurative hunger i.e. temptation for luxury, ambition, wealth, women, power, glory etc. This “hunger”, whether literal or figurative keeps Odysseus’s men from reaching their homes and uniting with their families. However, longing for family or grief for loved ones drives away “hunger”. Odysseus is the only man among his crew to reach home to Ithaca because his longing for his family and native land surpasses the “hungers” he encounters and experiences.…
Figurative language has power in writing. It is a tool that most authors use to show emphasis on how important or scary or beautiful something is. This relates to, Homer’s use of figurative language in the epic poem, The Odyssey. Throughout this epic, Odysseus is on a journey back home to Ithaca. Homer uses figurative language to convey that the Land of the Dead as a terrifying and transformative setting for Odysseus’s development as a hero.…
