Odysseus Essay

Odysseus and his men were given a choice, to explore the dangerous island or to row on in hopes of returning to Ithaca. In the book, The Odyssey, written by ancient storyteller Homer, A man is trying to return home to Ithaca from fighting a ten year long war. In book 9 of The Odyssey, Odysseus’ character is one of a complex characters that has developed over the course of his encounter with the monster cyclops Polyphemus to advance the plot of his epic story. Odysseus was on a journey, he…

Odysseus and Walt Disney are some of the greatest leaders in history, and are very successful in their efforts. Over the course of their lives they showed what it meant to be leaders; They were both very accomplished and experienced in their prime. Even though both were great leaders they had bad moments as well. While Walt Disney and Odysseus both exhibit the quality of determination like a leader, they are also are different because Odysseus exhibits hubris, while Disney wanted to bond with…

Their songs would have attracted Odysseus and his crew in if they had not been warned by Kirke before hand and blocked out the crew’s ears. This would have prevented Odysseus from returning home. The next monsters are the shades. These are the spirits that Odysseus talks to in Hades. The shades are respectful to Odysseus lining up to talk to him but in the end they all started to come at the same time. The shades came “in thousands, rustling/ in a pandemonium of whispers, blown together,/ and…

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…

are strength, loyalty, courageous, and smart. Odysseus is an epic hero as he fits all of these traits and many more. Although his curiosity and selfishness have gotten him and his crew into problems, Odysseus has always stayed loyal and courageous and would always try his hardest to succeed and keep moving forward on his journey. Even throughout Odysseus’ long journey he always maintained the traits of an epic hero; therefore, Odysseus…

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 of Ogygia. He also made the hard…

written by Homer, is an epic that revolves around Odysseus and his men overcoming many obstacles while trying find their way back home to Ithaka after being lost for 20 years after the Trojan War. Back in Ithaka, Odysseus’ wife Penelope is struggling to keep up with her marriage due to the suitors forcing her to marry one of them. Telemachus, his son, who has been fatherless for a very long time now, will not give up on the idea that Odysseus will soon come back and embarks on an adventure to…

In Book XIX of Homer's was talking about Odysseus returning home plan to kill the suitors and met Penelope. When Penelope hears of someone claiming to have met Odysseus somewhere in Crete and asked him about her husband but she does not trust to what the stranger says. Then Penelope tests his honesty by asking him to describe her husband: “Tell me what sort of clothes he wore, and tell me/ what he was like, and what his men were like” (XIX. 235-236). After be try a questioned by Penelope, the…

Greek hero Odysseus. She was not only the first goddess who mentioned Odysseus suffering in Calypso’s island, but also the only one who took care of Odysseus all the time during his homecoming journey and revenge in his homeland. Odysseus found unusual favor with Athena. This favor was expressed by explicit actions that other mortals also know about it. For example, Nestor had said these words to Telemachus: “Ah, if only grey-eyed Athena chose to love you / the way she did glorious Odysseus /…

Odysseus, the main character in Homer’s The Odyssey, is not a hero. He shows many non-heroic traits by today’s standards, such as his unending arrogance and need to prove himself, his unfaithfulness to his wife Penelope, and his bloodlust and unjust killings. Throughout the book Odysseus shows these characteristics through his actions. He Insults a Cyclops, he stays with and sleeps with a nymph for seven long years and he slaughters many maids who barely did anything wrong. A hero is humble,…