The Odyssey
Homer’s The Odyssey is a heroic journey that is both physical and spiritual in nature for Odysseus because Odysseus had to travel the land and sea. He had the go away from home with the “weathered many bitter nights and days in his deep heart at sea, while he fought only to save his life…” (Homer pages 963 lines 8-9). Odysseus’s journey was mental and physical because he grew as a person while he was away fro twenty-years. The Odyssey is a spiritual and physical journey for Odysseus because he had time to better himself, learn how to mature, and be brave in order to get home.
Odysseus was a great man and he made the mistake of trying to talk to the cyclopes and angered him and endangered his crew. He was arrogant and made a simple …show more content…
Or more like guys were trying to marry her because they wanted to be king. I believe that he was trying to be the best person. He fought for his wife and then killed the suitors. He was one of the best archerist in the world, or according to his wife. He was so skilled so she set up a competition and had axe heads and they had to string the bow then shoot the arrow through the axe heads. The suitors couldn’t even string the bow and in one slick motion, Odysseus strung the bow then shot the arrow then him and his son, Telemachus, worked together and removed all the weapons from the Great Hall and killed the suitors and got his home back. Then his wife didn’t want to get her hopes us so she was talking to him and was trying to get him to move the bed. This was the room that he built over the bed with ivory and gold and their hope was restored because only they could know what was involved in the making of that bed. “Make up his bed for him, Eurycleia. Place it outside the bedchamber my lord built with his own hands. Pile the big bed with fleeces, rugs, and sheets of purest lined...he turned on her in a flashing raging: “Woman, by heaven you’ve stung me now! Who dared to move my bed? No builder had the skill for that… no mortal in his best days could budge it with a crowbar. There is our pact and pledge, our secret sign, built into that bed---my handiwork and no one else’s! ” (Homer pages 1016-1017 lines
Homer’s The Odyssey is a heroic journey that is both physical and spiritual in nature for Odysseus because Odysseus had to travel the land and sea. He had the go away from home with the “weathered many bitter nights and days in his deep heart at sea, while he fought only to save his life…” (Homer pages 963 lines 8-9). Odysseus’s journey was mental and physical because he grew as a person while he was away fro twenty-years. The Odyssey is a spiritual and physical journey for Odysseus because he had time to better himself, learn how to mature, and be brave in order to get home.
Odysseus was a great man and he made the mistake of trying to talk to the cyclopes and angered him and endangered his crew. He was arrogant and made a simple …show more content…
Or more like guys were trying to marry her because they wanted to be king. I believe that he was trying to be the best person. He fought for his wife and then killed the suitors. He was one of the best archerist in the world, or according to his wife. He was so skilled so she set up a competition and had axe heads and they had to string the bow then shoot the arrow through the axe heads. The suitors couldn’t even string the bow and in one slick motion, Odysseus strung the bow then shot the arrow then him and his son, Telemachus, worked together and removed all the weapons from the Great Hall and killed the suitors and got his home back. Then his wife didn’t want to get her hopes us so she was talking to him and was trying to get him to move the bed. This was the room that he built over the bed with ivory and gold and their hope was restored because only they could know what was involved in the making of that bed. “Make up his bed for him, Eurycleia. Place it outside the bedchamber my lord built with his own hands. Pile the big bed with fleeces, rugs, and sheets of purest lined...he turned on her in a flashing raging: “Woman, by heaven you’ve stung me now! Who dared to move my bed? No builder had the skill for that… no mortal in his best days could budge it with a crowbar. There is our pact and pledge, our secret sign, built into that bed---my handiwork and no one else’s! ” (Homer pages 1016-1017 lines