The Odyssey A LETTER TO MY SON 12th March 2041 Dear Son‚ Happy 13th birthday‚ my dear son! Congratulations on becoming a teenager. Both your mother and I cannot believe how fast you have grown. I have chosen this book‚ The Odyssey‚ to guide you as you grow into a man. My English teacher‚ Mrs Jones‚ FORCED us to read it when I was your age ( and although it was VERY boring at first (especially the complicated timeline)‚ we were soon engrossed in Odysseus’s swashbuckling adventures
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Frederick Douglass once said “With out a Struggle their can be no Progress”. This quote perfectly explains the ups and downs of ones quest to return home. In the Odyssey‚ Homer uses Odysseus’s journey to show how one’s journey can affect them as a person. In the Odyssey‚ Homer gives Odysseus’s challenges that detours his journey home. These problems affect his desire to get back home and what he will do for his family. Odysseus states “ I drew on all my wits‚ and ran through the tactics‚ reasoning
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The Odyssey is an epic from the writer Homer in the 8th century. The Odyssey is a 20 year voyage of a man named Odysseus who was king of Ithaca. The first ten years of the voyage was a war Odysseus fought in called the Trojan War. Odysseus ended the war when he had the genius idea of creating a horse as a “peace offering” because he knew he could not beat the Trojans from the outside. The horse was hollowed out in the inside so Odysseus and his men could fit inside it. Once the Trojans brought the
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The Iliad and The Odyssey are tales written by Homer centered on the drama of the Trojan War. First poem deals with the time during the end of the war‚ while the latter‚ which occurs roughly ten years later‚ explains the disastrous journey of Odysseus fighting his way back home. The character of women in the Odyssey is to exhibit the many and diverse roles that women play in the lives of men. These functions vary from characters such as the goddess ’ that help them to the nymphs who trick them
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obedience to the Gods in which the Greek world revolved around. Beyond relaying a fantastic journey‚ featuring a glorified hero who embodies to perfection Greek ideals‚ Homer uses the epic books of The Odyssey to explore all the nuances of Greek culture. Each part of The Odyssey possesses a purpose beyond detailing popular mythology. Book Eleven’s Underworld becomes the culmination of all the values and ideals that Homer touches on in prior books. Homer uses the underworld as a
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Along the journey one will gain experience no one could gain without it. There is the also the bond with the team along the trials of the journey. No matter the size or length of the journey one’s future will be affected greatly. For example‚ in The Odyssey Odysseus goes on an adventure that changes his future called “The Cattle of The Sun God” and ends up eating some sheep that he wasn’t supposed to eat but‚ did
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In “The Odyssey” by Homer‚ Odysseus travels home after participating in the Trojan War. Odysseus goes through many trials and challenges testing his loyalty and wit before he finishes his difficult journey home. Odysseus shows that he is a smart leader while coming back to his kingdom and family. Odysseus was clever after he tricked the cyclops‚ Polyphemus‚ to drink Odysseus’ wine. This caused the cyclops to become drunken and fall asleep. This allowed Odysseus to stab and blind Polyphemus
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Lambert MR. Bovaird Honors English 9 23 May 2010 The Significance of Xenia in Homer’s Odyssey The society of Ancient Greece was very much centered around the gods‚ and a healthy fear of the consequences of not obeying their laws. The next most important staples of the society were the concepts of braver‚ pride‚ and hospitality‚ or Xenia. The significance of these values is shown quite clearly in The Odyssey of Homer. In the first five books of the epic‚ Telemachos is shown great hospitality by
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women are primarily portrayed as seductresses. These women create problems for Odysseus in Homer’s story‚ The Odyssey. Some examples of this would be through women like Calypso‚ who held men against their will‚ Circe‚ a dangerous woman who practiced sorcery and the Sirens‚ who lure men to their death. All together these women caused many problems to Odysseus and other men. Throughout the Odyssey‚ women are used as a symbol of temptation and seduction. Odysseus finds himself trapped on an island Ogygia
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Throughout the Odyssey there is an ongoing theme of hospitality or xenia that shows cultural values. The ancient cultural value of Xenia is a religious and social accept that has to do with the relationship between guest and hosts. Both the guess and the host have specific roles. The role of the host was to take in the stranger‚ provide him with shelter‚ food‚ drink and aiding them on their journey with whatever means they have to spear. This is seen in book one when Telemachus unknowingly takes
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