Odysseus Essay

Odyssey by Homer, there is an epic hero named Odysseus. An epic hero is someone who is: brave and a noble character in an epic poem, admired for great achievements or affected by grand events.Odysseus deserves the title as an epic hero for several reasons. Odysseus is an example for an epic hero for his courageousness, instinct, and cockiness during his adventures in the odyssey. There are many reasons why Odysseus is an epic hero. First Odysseus demonstrates his memorable Heroism when he…

identity. He identifies himself as royalty and as the son of Odysseus and Penelope, the King and Queen of Ithaca. Telemachus is instructed to find out information about his father, which will further help in defining Telemachus’ self-cognizance. Odysseus is the only missing piece to Telemachus’ puzzle of identity. Telemachus can only fully understand his own identity with the understanding of his father’s identity.…

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…

“Odysseus’ Journey” The epic poem we all know shows much detail of struggles that is being thrown at the ‘Teller of Tales’ Odysseus. “The Odyssey” by Homer shows that Odysseus goes through so many things to get back home to his wife Penelope on the land of Ithaca, but which part is most importantly impacted on the hero? A hero’s qualities are most defined by his journey and adventure, not the end of it. Through the book, beginning to end Odysseus mostly shows Loyalty, Intelligence and…

the Odyssey, when Odysseus takes revenge on the suitors it is expected and revered as honorable and just. However, in Euripides’s Hecuba, her revenge is portrayed as savage and dishonorable. Both characters achieve their revenge through plotting murder, but where the former sees the restoration of his oikos and the salvation of his reputation, the latter relinquishes the remnants of her reputation and is doomed to a worse fate than she was already suffering as a slave. Odysseus, who accomplished…

One of Odysseus’ most important traits is cunning. He saved his men way more than just a few times. Thanks to Odysseus’ being cunning, they successfully made it past the cyclops, Scylla, Charybdis, and even the sirens. Odysseus is a great warrior and can get out of anything. But he is best at being cunning and outsmarting his enemy. Odysseus and his men were stuck on the island of the cyclops. But Odysseus told his men not to kill the cyclops because then they would not have a way out of the…

comedy today, back then, most things were tragedies, so when something had a happy ending, they called it a comedy. “Ulysses” was made before “The Odyssey” movie. When comparing the two movies to each other, they have similarities such as the way Odysseus/Ulysses proved their selves and the characters, and they have differences such as the qualities of the movies, the way the ships were taken, and the love stories. The two movies do not have a whole lot in common but they have some…

story. One similarity between Odysseus and Jason is that they both have matrilineally divine and patrilineally noble lineage. In fact, in some stories the two of heroes are related. Both Odysseus mother, Anticlea, and Jason’s mother, Polymede, are daughters of Autolycus, a son of the Olympian god Hermes and the nymph Chione. Although their fathers are both completely human, both are kings. Odysseus’s father, Laertes, is the king of Ithaka; Jason’s father, Aeson,…

Who is that trying to be cool? Odysseus. He is in ‘’the odyssey by homer’’. Odysseus is brave and clever guy. Heres why. First he is clever. In the story he told the cyclops that his name was nobody so when he was yelling and his bros came to help him, he said nobody is hurting me. That is pretty clever because that changed that part because if he said his name was something else the cyclops and bros would have stayed and it would have been a game changer. This is something you can learn from…

Odyssues and his crew's point of view. While approaching the Sirens, Odysseus breaks pieces of beeswax for his men to protect their ears from the Siren song. ''I stopped the ears of my comrades one by one'', this illustrates that the Sirens were a lethal threat to the livelihood of the men on board. Odysseus fails to barricade his ears from the temptation of the irresistible voices, which made it necessary for the crew to tie Odysseus down to prevent him from stampeding over-board. Siren song:…