In the Odyssey, Poseidon perpetrates a horrible string of deeds against Odysseus in his attempt to exact revenge for the justice delivered to his son, Polyphemus. Specifically, he endeavors to ensure Odysseus’s death or at least to make his journey home as painful as possible. Similarly, David exiles his son Absalom when Absalom justly kills his brother Amnon after Amnon rapes his sister Tamar. Both David and Poseidon are unwilling to uphold justice enough to deliver it to their children.…
Do you ever wonder what it feels like to be swallowed whole? Poseidon found out. This god went through a lot of trauma as a child. Poseidon god of the sea is also known for his weapon, his symbols, and his origin. Poseidon's weapon is a trident, Poseidon's trident was used to create water sources in Greece and the horse.…
Similarly in this text as in Harry Potter the refusal to the call of adventure isn’t carried out by the hero himself. Instead, Poseidon attempts to prevent Odysseus from continuing on his journey by conjuring a storm that sinks his ship. While neither story clearly follows the conventional structure of the refusal to the call of adventure, it is evident that each plot creates their own unique twist to this phase of the heroes’…
After the previous success of our interview with Persephone, we were requested to interview Poseidon. We sent our reporter in to get the scoop. I was by the Jersey Shore carefully following directions to where Poseidon was to meet me. He said that it was a “sacred sacrificial ground for prisoners of war.” It seemed to be a normal section of restaurants by the shore but I had hope.…
Homer’s epic poem, The Odyssey, translated by Allen Mandelbaum, is about Odysseus journey back home after the Trojan War and all the obstacles that he has to overcome in order to get back. Penelope wife of Odysseus long awaits his return and is seen as the perfect wife and one who sets high standards for loyalty. She does not care how much she suffers in waiting for him to come home she avoids marriage in any way she possibly could. When the suitors invade their house at Ithaca they demand and ask to marry Penelope, but she does not want to marry them because she believes Odysseus is alive and will come back. Antinous blamed the impasse on Penelope because he believed that she was seducing the suitors, but would not commit to one.…
On (D’AULIRES’ Book of Greek Myths), it states, “Poseidon was called the Earth shaker for when he struck the ground with his trident the Earth trembled and split open. This quote was told to tell you what can happen when Poseidon gets angry. A couple of days after I got to “Camp Half Blood” Clarisse and her friends from “Ares” cabin tried to attack me and Annabeth, I got angry and made all the water from the stalls in the bathroom splash everyone except…
After blinding Poseidon’s son Polyphemus, Poseidon makes it his duty to do everything he can to keep Odysseus from journeying home. Since “not even the gods/ can defend a man… from that day/ when fate takes hold and lays him out at last”, Athena must come up with other ways to help save Odysseus from Poseidon, a more powerful god, on his journey(III.269). On his way back from Ethiopia, Poseidon sees Odysseus and tries to kill him, “churning the waves into chaos, whipping/ all the gales from every quarter, shrouding over in thunderheads/ the earth and sea at once” (V.322). Athena then “countered him at once”, stopping the winds.…
Guests and hosts have obligations in which need to be fulfilled to a certain extent. The attitudes exhibited by one party to another should be reciprocated. Fortunately this is the case for Odysseus. Greed overtakes (yet again) and any good sense remaining in Odysseus and his crew is no longer evident. This chapter of the “flashback chapters” shows the abuse of hospitality by the men of Odysseus.…
Percy Jackson a twelve year old boy, decides to tell us the of his past year. At the beginning of summer, just after sixth grade year, Percy discovers that something is wrong with him. Or on the other hand, maybe something is right with him. He becomes aware that he is a half-blood: half-human, half god. He is taken to camp half-blood in New York, a camp where kids like him do not have to worry about attacks on half-bloods..…
Poseidon is released by Kanon, Saga's brother, after he was trapped in a nearby prison. Poseidon, Athena recognizes that returned to life to fight Hades, and therefore decides attack Sekai with another purifier flood (but, the sinful humanity does he choose to kill everyone, leaving no survivor), possessing the body of Julian Solo, and begging Kanon wake up on your 16th birthday. Kanon, however, deceived Poseidon, letting him sleep in Solo's body, which is now handled by himself. In the anime, Julian Sollo, to be a part of the sea god consciousness has Hilda with the Nibelung Ring, to weaken the army of Athena, but his plan fails.…
Arrogance is one of the countless amount of mistakes and flaws a person is prone to throughout his or her lifetime. It is the feeling of superiority, egoism, and over-confidence in a person’s own self. Literary texts and infamous historical leaders portray this personal flaw in several different ways. For example, The Odyssey is a story about Odysseus who caused his journey to be difficult due to his naive and arrogant behaviour. In addition, Beowulf is an epic poem about the life of a great warrior who lost his life because of his feelings of overconfidence.…
The God of Sea Poseidon told him that he helped him against…
The Greek hero Odysseus and conqueror of the Trojan war, attempts to return home to Ithaca with his men. After battle, he finds Poseidon, god of the sea angry at him. Poseidon curses Odysseus making their journey home nearly impossible, lasting ten years with many difficult…
In this sense, Loki and Odin are two sides of the same coin, only one of which is seen as a negative. From Odin challenging the wisest of the giants to a wisdom competition, to Loki killing a god, to Hades kidnapping Persephone, and to Hermes disguising himself as a cyclops, all of these gods prominently are trouble-makers and tricksters at the heart of their personalities and depictions. The archetype of the “trickster” god is common across both the Norse and Greek mythologies even though they were separated by geography and…
“Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief” takes place in modern day New York, in a world where Greek Gods rule the world from Mt Olympus. The star of the story Percy Jackson is just like your average teenager other than the fact that he is dyslectic and has a case of ADHD. Little does he know that he is actually the son of Poseidon, and also a demigod. In a matter of hours, his world will be turned upside down as he has to accept the responsibility to stop Zeus and Poseidon from going to war with each other, turning earth into a battle ground and wiping out all life on earth. As the story starts out, Poseidon the God of the sea is confronted by Zeus the God of the Sky.…