Week Four Summary Response Homer’s epic poem, The Odyssey, entails the story of Odysseus and his long journey home after fighting in The Trojan war for ten years. It then takes him ten more years to reach his home in Ithaca where his wife and child have been fighting off suitors trying to steal Odysseus’ throne, King of Ithaca. His journey home begins when he escapes the clutches of the Calypso. Along the way, he faces many great obstacles and trials. Once he makes it home he then proves his identity, slaughters the suitors, and takes his wife back along with his throne.…
Odyssey Journal #1 Summary: Calypso, The Sweet Nymph Odysseus starts off stuck on Calypso’s island and has been stuck there for 10 years. Athean goes to Zeus and convinces him to let Odysseus go. Athena is able to convince Zeus so he sends Hermes, the messenger of the Gods, to go tell Calypso to release Odysseus. Calypso releases Odysseus, Odysseus becomes immediately cheerful.…
With his intelligence, gallantry, and leadership, Odysseus is able to overcome all those difficulties and reach his homeland. When they first reach the Cyclops’s cave, all the men want to steal the goods and leave, but Odysseus refuses to out of curiosity. They decide to burn an offering and wait for the creature who lives in the cave to return. After the Cyclops returns and eats two of the men, Odysseus plans out how to escape, and as the Cyclops is sleeping, they courageously…
Hero or Villain? A hero is someone who stands up to evil, somebody who has courage, intelligence, and never backs down. In Homer’s “The Odyssey,” Odysseus shows these qualities throughout his journey to return home to his wife and son in Ithaca. Forced to participate in the Trojan War, Odysseus finds a successful plan to defeat his enemies.…
Book I When I was a young boy, my father left for a journey. Twenty years have passed by, and he still has not returned from that journey. I do not think he is alive anymore. There is no way he could survive twenty years on a journey, is there? I hear my father is an incredible man, but twenty years is a long time.…
When Odysseus reached home he did not realize he was in for an unpleasant surprise. In part two of The Odyssey, Odysseus was coming home to the town of Ithaca hoping for joy and triumph in his return. However that is not what Odysseus received from everyone in the town. Odysseus had been gone for twenty years only to come home and find many suitors had overrun his home. Odysseus had many reasons to kill the suitors such as the following: they were asking for his wife's had in marriage, they were eating his food, and they were planning to ambush Telemachus; Odysseus’s son.…
He is determined to return home to Ithaca and won’t let anything stand in his way. Even though Odysseus is confounded by certain events, he refuses to give up and does find a…
Telemachus is an interesting character (Adjective Phrase) in The Odyssey. Telemachus is willing to do anything for a decent reward. Right now he is trying to find his father, Odysseus. He has gone island to island and city to city trying to get clues to where his father may have gone. Telemachus has traveled to the island of Pylos to talk to King Nestor.…
Within Telemachus’s great journey in The Odyssey, Telemachus gains incredible knowledge and obtains a crew, which allows for Telemachus to attempt to find Odysseus. When leaving Ithaca, Telemachus obtains a crew, “When they came down to the sea and reached the boat they found their long-haired crew waiting on the beach… He led off and the crew followed. They brought down all the stores and stowed them in their well-built ship” (2.404-414). This caused Telemachus to then travel the ocean to Pylos in search of his father.…
Odysseus and Me Odysseus is a brave, clever, determined man, but he has one trait that went above and beyond the rest. That trait is persistence, which is the action of working towards a goal tirelessly despite being put down at first. Odysseus, from the epic poem the Odyssey, by Homer, defeats every challenge that tries to stop him on his journey home. He refuses to let anything get in his way.…
Odysseus had 1 goal and that goal was to get home to his son and wife. The 20 year journey was hard for there was many ways he could die. Yet luck and the goddess Athena helped him lived thro the whole journey. A 1/2 of his men to the war then on the way home he lost the other1/2 of his men o the way home.…
This simile is taken from Book 20 of The Odyssey of Homer. Odysseus is debating whether or not to kill the household maids who are laughing on their way to meet the suitors at night. When he witnesses the women who work in his own house go to bed with the suitors, who are dishonoring him and his family, he gets very angry. He is compared to a growling female dog, which is trying to protect her pups from an unknown person.…
The story of the Odyssey, tells of a cunning hero who has gone on a journey to fight in the Trojan War, to recapture a queen named Helen, who was supposedly kidnapped. Ten years later, the war is over, but Odysseus hasn’t found his way home. Maybe it’s just an inevitable force(s) that causes him to stay away from his homeland for another ten years…who knows. Furthermore, the story shows its complexity through multiple themes its surrounded around. The most profound ones are: appearance versus reality, loyalty, and spiritual growth.…
Throughout this voyage, Odysseus constantly speaks and thinks of returning home to Penelope and their son Telemachus, a thought that allows him to persist through all odds for twenty years. Odysseus’ absence from his household has left it unprotected and vulnerable to forces that might ruin its integrity, a great fear that makes his need to return home so urgent and strong, as Odysseus describes: “‘Yet, it is true, each day I long for the sight of home. If any god has marked me out again for shipwreck, my tough heart can undergo it. What hardship have I not long since endured at sea, in battle! Let the trial come’”(V.228-33).…
Odysseus says, “’I wanted to see [the Cyclops] and claim the stranger’s gift… So we lit a fire and made our thank-offering, and helped ourselves to as many cheeses as we wanted to eat; then we sat inside till he should come back with his flocks’” (111). Odysseus is impulsive and does not think before he acts. He is very selfish and only wants to see what glory the Cyclops gives him. He expects everyone to bow down to him, let alone know who he is, contrasting Odysseus when he fights the suitors at the end of the story and receives glory from his city. When Polyphemus, the Cyclops who happens to be Poseidon’s son, returns home, he traps Odysseus and his crew in his cave.…