Who Is the Most Epic Hero? Odysseus is the most epic hero. After fighting for ten years in the Trojan War, Odysseus and his crew travel home to Ithaca. The face many obstacles and monsters on their journey that should take two weeks but ends up lasting ten years.…
John Maxwell once said, “Leaders become great, not because of their power, but because of their ability to empower others.” Odysseus, a hero in the epic The Odyssey, becomes an example of this in his attempt to return to his home. While sailing, he decided to sail by a large creature and lose only a few men, compared to sailing by a whirlpool and possibly losing everyone and his ship. Odysseus also gets his crew to blind a large one-eyed monster and hide under his animals to free him and his crew. Odysseus was a strong leader and did everything he could to help his crew because of his decisions to sacrifice some men rather than possibly lose them all and to escape from a monster by hiding under his livestock.…
Everyone has been hungry at some point in time. Hunger can drive people to do anything it takes to satisfy that hunger even if it has negative consequences. Odysseus’s men in The Odyssey had run out of food. Odysseus’s men should eat the cattle that belong to Helios, the sun god, because of starving, drowning, and sacrificing. The men had depleted their food supply.…
Throughout the story Odysseus does not take actions when his men are being killed or eaten so that he can live, like he did in the giant’s cave, when Scylla attacked and when Zeus struck them with a lightning bolt and the evidence that proves Odysseus takes these actions to protect himself reads, “why not/ take these cheeses, get them stowed, come back, / throw open all pens, and make a run for it? / We’ll drive the kids and lambs aboard. We say/ put out again on the good salt water! / Ah, / how sounds that…
‘Odysseus is motivated only by his desire to return home (nostos).’ How far do you agree with this view? (45 marks) Overall, Odysseus is motivated only by his desire to return home. This is shown in different parts in The Odyssey along with Odysseus’ alternatives motivations.…
Alex Drolet Mrs. Rabe English 7A 8 December 2017 Odysseus demonstrated self-control In this essay I will be answering the question does Odysseus have self-control. I think that Odysseus does have self-control from what I know already. He was a great war commander who lead the Greeks to their victory in the Trojan War. It was a very long war which took self-control to fight without leaving his team.…
Odysseus is described as a strong hero and warrior but after his return to Ithaca, but these words are just describing his physical capabilities and do not take into account his mental health. After a veteran (a modern day hero) returns home from war it is very common for them to experience Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder also known PTSD. Post-Traumatic Stress is commonly seen in someone who has just experienced a traumatic event (ADAA). The common symptoms of PTSD are feelings of agitation, irritability, loss of interest, guilt, and sleep insomnia. It is very common for someone experiencing PTSD to avoid places that would bring back memories of the traumatic event or experience.…
Odysseus: Son of Pain In Homer 's The Odyssey, a king, Alcinous, urges the protagonist, Odysseus, "Come, tell us the name they call you there at home [...] Surely no man is nameless [...] as soon as he sees the light his parents always name him, once he 's born" (209 • 618-622). Odysseus 's name, in fact, carries great significance. It means "son of pain," and through the course of the poem, the reader can understand how fitting this name is for this character.…
those comrades I had trusted [feast] there,/ eating the cattle they had rounded up,/ the finest beasts in Helios’ herd. ”(12.396-398). If Odysseus’s own close friends on his crew do not believe the words Odysseus speaks, how is anyone else going to believe…
Of the numerous ghosts to whom Odysseus speaks in Odyssey Book 11, which are your favorite three and why? Does Odysseus learn anything important from them? If so, what? I SHALL ARGUE THAT Teiresias, Antikleia, and Agamemnom provide Odysseus with his most important encounters while he explores Hades; because of this, these three ARE my favorite ghosts that Odysseus speaks with in Hades.…
People go back and forth in the pursuit of revenge, to get back at one another is the goal. In the story “Odysseus” he takes his own revenge on the wooers who had taken over his home. Anyone who was even involved with the wooers plot was punished by Odysseus with the punishment of his choosing. Odysseus actions were completely justified, everyone deserved they're punishment, and his punishments weren't severe. He took his revenge to reclaim his power and honor.…
The Greeks and Romans believed in an Underworld as a place where the souls of the dead live. Book six of the Aeneid and book eleven of The Odyssey are two stories that describe the underworld as where all the dead, live. Virgil’s description of the Underworld in Aeneid is a very elaborated setting where there are many different levels an individual can encounter depending on his or her sins in life. While, in book eleven of the Odyssey, Homer’s Greek description of the underworld is a place where every soul faces unhappiness and misery throughout eternity. Although both stories have several similarities, they also have striking differences when examined carefully.…
Odysseus is a self-centered leader who allows his own personal desires to cloud his judgement as a leader which puts not only himself, but his men in danger. When Odysseus and his men come upon a cave full of sheeps and crates full of cheese, Odysseus decides to enter the cave. Even when his men advise him to take some cheese and drive the lambs to the ship and set sail, odysseus lets his curiosity get the best of him and decides to wait for the giant to return. “...We looked around at everything inside…. My men came pleading, take these cheese, come back, throw open all the pens, and make a run for it. ….…
The Odyssey illustrates the journey of Odysseus on his homecoming after the Trojan War. Through Homer's Iliad and Odyssey has mentioned the possible existence and access of the Afterlife through rituals as expressed by Achilles in the Iliad after he received a premonition of his cousin Patroclus after he had not completed his funeral right and could not move forward to the realm of the dead. Homer’s Odyssey Book XI raises several important themes about the presentation of the Afterlife in Greek mythology during Homeric times. In Book XI readers see another step and obstacle that Odysseus must overcome to return home. In this book Homer formally introduces The Underworld, the place where the souls of people who die end up.…