one of the greatest poets of all time began his work. His name was Homer. Throughout Greek history‚ we can see the tremendous impact that Homer and his ideas had on the people of Greece and their education. While most historians believe that Homer’s works are not true accounts of Greek history‚ the Greeks studied his epics as legitimate facts of history. The Greeks didn’t have a lot of true history recorded in their time‚ so Homer decided to fabricate his own. The history that he designed gave the
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death of Patroclus. Death and fighting is not depicted as glorious in The Iliad. Brave warriors receive fame‚ gold‚ food‚ and women‚ and the younger Greek fighters thrive on this romantic notion. However‚ a closer look at the text shows that Homer describes many deaths in violent‚ anatomic detail. Most of these deaths are not important to the plot of the story‚ but they serve the important purpose of showing the reader that no death is insignificant or easy. These descriptions give The Iliad
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Even a hero has character flaws that make him more human than hero because of their good traits being weighed down by their bad traits. That is what keeps Odysseus in The Odyssey from standing out as the hero he was. The Odyssey was written by Homer and it is an epic poem. The Odyssey is about a young war hero‚ Odysseus‚ who has to make a journey home after the ten year Trojan War. He needs to arrive home before his son grows up because that is when his wife will move on to another man that
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Name(s):Lizbeth and Aaron Greek Mythology and Homer’s Odyssey Web Quest Read and follow the instructions carefully. You must read the materials on the web pages carefully and completely answer the questions which follow in order to get the full benefit of this introduction to Greek Mythology and Homer’s Odyssey. Background 1. Click on the following link. Read the entire page and answer the questions which follow. http://messagenet.com/myths/essays/origins.html. 2. Greek My
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heroic leader. However‚ critics argue that Homer did not portray Odysseus properly to claim he was a hero. Despite the disrespect and arrogance Odysseus possessed‚ he overcame impossible odds and proved himself as the true epic hero by being courageous‚ persistent and resourceful. Without doubt‚ a resourceful personality saved Odysseus’ life at least twice in the Odyssey. First in Polyphemus’ cave‚ Odysseus used his guile to escape certain death. Homer had Odysseus cunningly blind Polyphemus with
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Comparing the Odyssey to the Lord of the Rings The Lord of the Rings and Odyssey are two very weird stories in my opinion. The two stories include several similarities. The most noteworthy similarity of the two that were in common was the use of themes. Both included similar themes such as‚ life‚ death‚power‚ brotherly love‚ myth‚ temptation‚ and journey. One thing I noticed was the use of several different themes included in both stories. In the Lord of the Rings the
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a figure that possesses extra human abilities and status. Heroes serve as protagonists of epics and myths and are widely celebrated for their deeds (Ogden 2010‚ 102). A hero is defined by certain outstanding characteristics. Throughout his works‚ Homer shows that the most important of these include arete‚ hubris‚ and kleos; however‚ none of his characters have all of these attributes. Castle (quoted in Harker 1996‚ 53) defines “arete” as the ability to fully maximize physical and mental endowments
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the god Hephaestus‚ and report the scenes that Achilles’mother‚ the Nereid Thetis‚ expects to find on the shield and which Hephaestus‚ in Auden’s version‚ does not make. Thetis expects to find scenes of happiness and peace like those described by Homer. The stanzas with longer lines describe the scenes that Hephaestus creates in Auden’s version‚ scenes of a barren and impersonal modern world. In the first‚ an anonymous‚ dispassionate army listens crowd of ordinary people watch passively. In the
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physical and the spiritual sense. In the physical sense he is a great hero‚ because he overcomes all these extreme dangers; he comes out alive after wondering for ten years and facing the most extremely dangerous creatures and people. Why would Homer set up this whole fantastic voyage with all the strange encounters that Odysseus has to go through‚ if it was not to show that this man is a great hero of the Greek world? In order to put it more simply‚ if Odysseus was not one of the greatest heroes
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upon the Achaeans” (Homer 98) while Genesis has a sense of peace when the Creator started to mold the earth‚ “God said “Let there be light.” And there was light. And He saw the light said it was good‚ and God divided darkness from the light and called them night and day.” (Genesis 75) Homer uses many adjectives to describe his character’s actions and strengths on the field of battle but Genesis is more straightforward with its text which make it easier to understand.
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