2010: Odyssey Two

The Odyssey by Homer is an epic poem, believed to have been written between 800 and 700 BCE. The book focuses on the hero Odysseus and his long journey home to Ithaca after the fall of Tory. During the epic, Telemachus shows a great deal of growth from acting like a boy into being a mature man. He starts his journey being regarded as a child in front of the suitors at his father’s house, and his outburst in front of them furthered this opinion. As the story progresses however his growth is…

Homer’s Odyssey is no exception to this. While the Odyssey is no doubt a great adventure story, full of great battles and severing of limbs, it is also at its core, a love story. It is the tale of Odysseus facing innumerable trials to return to his ever faithful Penelope. For him, returning to his wife his final cause, his great desire that motivates his actions that keep him itching closer to home. It is only in his return to his beloved, Penelope, and reengagement in domestic life that…

Albert Einstein says that a man is defined by values rather than his success. Odysseus has many victories but he follows his morals religiously and does not break them regardless of desperation. Odysseus’s expedition was a treacherous trek that seemed near impossible. Odysseus had many opponents. One of them was Polyphemus (cyclops), the son of Poseidon, who trapped Odysseus and his crew in his cave. Another opponent Odysseus encountered was Calypso (nymph) who imprisoned Odysseus on the island…

poem by Homer, The Odyssey, tells of Odysseus’ tumultuous journey back to his home on the island of Ithaka. Odysseus, the main character in the epic poem, appears to be the hero slaying the monsters, but as his journey continues it becomes more difficult to distinguish who the monster really is. Upon closer inspection, the true monster is not one of the various mythical creates Odysseus faces, but is instead Odysseus himself. Passages from book nine and book 22 of The Odyssey, demonstrate how…

The Comparison To The Underworld Many pieces of literature contain many similar characteristics to Greek and Roman mythology as these references illustrate a certain idea or image for the reader. Many authors in the past would draw these comparisons to invoke a deeper meaning to their writing. The Underworld of Roman mythology is the kingdom of Pluto and is where Romans believed the dead went to in afterlife. For one, the house of Trimalchio as well as the contents in it, are directly related to…

In the 2017 documentary, The Crest, directed by Mark Covino, the story of two cousins on opposite sides of the United States who are both surfers and both unaware of the other’s existence, and they discover that they are both descendants of An Ri, the last King of the Blasket Islands, a collection of rocky islands off the western-most point of Ireland. The cousins meet for the first time in Ireland on a quest to explore their shared heritage, learn what has been passed down to them from those…

At the boat, he needs to try to survive from continuous hunger and thirst at the beginning due to not finding any of the requirements. He would also need to try to not get eaten by the carnivorous animals on the boat making him need to survive in two dangerous conditions. At the beginning, he was scared to death on the boat because he had none of the requirements such as food and water and there were the dangerous animals on board. It would say how he had not had a drop to drink or a bite to eat…

with a padlock and they bust open the lock. The boy and the father go into basement and find a group of naked people in bad condition. The boy and father run out of the basement as fast as they can. The boy looks out the window and he saw four men and two women coming towards the house. The boy and father take off and they go hide. The boy asked his father if they were going to kill them. The father than explains to the boy that if they find them he is going to have to do it. The world at this…

cranes the workers would have no way to lift the two ton bricks up four hundred feet. The other grouping of arguments are mathematical formations that show up in the dimensions of the pyramids. Erich von Däniken claims that it could not have been coincidental for the Egyptians to create a pyramid that when its height is multiplied by one billion it equals almost exactly the distances from the earth to the sun, and that the base multiplied by two times the height is almost equal to the numbers…

The Odyssey, an epic poem by Homer later adapted into a play by Simon Armitage, is a narrative depicting the journey of the greek hero Odysseus back to Ithaca after fighting in the Trojan War. His voyage spans twenty years, and throughout the course of his trip back home, Odysseus and his men encounter various obstacles that they need to overcome. Since Odysseus is essentially the leader of his crew, it is most often his responsibility to defeat the enemy and solve the problem at hand. At times,…