The Odyssey Essay

Homer’s story of the Odyssey is a lot like a journey through life. My life will have obstacles just as Odysseus had in his journey trying to sail through the tough waves that life brings. Life will have struggles just like Odysseus had his own troubles on his journey back to his wife, I too will have more to go through. As the story regails, Odysseus has encountered the lotus eater. Theses lotus eater try to keep Odysseus and his crew to stray away from their goal of getting back to their…

The ethic of hospitality is quite prevalent in Homer’s Odyssey. Its presence shows how important hospitality was to the ancient Greeks. They were expected to host others in need as if they were one’s own family, and guests were expected to respect their hosts. The gods are responsible for punishing those who practice improper hospitality. As it turns out, many of the characters in The Odyssey do not follow the Greek ethic of hospitality, and are subsequently punished by the gods for doing so. In…

in common with modern day civilization? Quite a bit if you think about it. The book in question, The Odyssey is an epic story with a vast and diverse group of characters that today’s society can draw a parallel to. There are many themes in the book ranging from infidelity to hubris. Our hero Odysseus is our lens into his world and through him we can examine ourselves and our society. In the odyssey infidelity is like a plague running rampant in the world, no stone unturned no quarter given. The…

highlighted in her epithets, throughout the stories of The Odyssey written by Homer and translated by Robert Fagles. Epithets are phrases that are able to describe a character often in a book. They are able to act as an introduction to the character, as that character is mentioned. This adds insight as to who the the character being introduced, is, as a person or in this case, as a goddess. Homer uses epithets consistently throughout the Odyssey. In the epithets regarding her, Athena is…

putting yourself at risk in order to achieve a goal. Based off this definition, both Odyssey and Antigone fit in this definition, but the hero who better suits this description will have to be Antigone. Although both of these text are different in the sense that one is a tragedy and the other is an epic; they also have some similarities as well as differences. One similarity is that both characters are on a mission. Odyssey is trying to “return home to Ithaca “(Homer…

matter the circumstance. The Odyssey raises the question of free will vs fate by asking if the actions of Odysseus’s crew where predetermined or was it free will and Odysseus’s suffering was just consequences of poor judgment. The Odyssey leans more to the idea of fate ruling us all and the gods having the free will to change fate and making humans lives miserable. The Odyssey can then become a building block for the next reading, Plato’s the Allegory of the…

The Odyssey Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.” Every story holds truth to it, no matter what year it was published. In the The Odyssey by Homer, there are many themes that help readers in our world today, even though the epic poem was written hundreds of years ago. The first theme from The Odyssey that applies to our world today is considering advice from others often leads to success. In the story, Lady Circe warns Odysseus that when he sails past…

Three thousand years ago in a beautiful part of the world that is now known as Greece was a remarkable story about a man named Odysseus king of Ithaca and his odyssey home after the ten-year Trojan War. In the story,"The Odyssey ", by Homer,Odysseus a cosmopolite, brave, courageous, and heroic man is struggling to get back home to Ithaca after the ten-year war with the Trojans, he faces many external conflicts on his journey home to his wife Penelope and son Telemachus but he first must face…

As Homer’s Odysseus continues along his hero's journey in The Odyssey, he goes on the hunt for Ithaca passing into the belly of the beast, engaging on the dark road of trials testing the hero’s strength, wit, and courage, challenging their faith and will to persevere in such times of despair. Razing Troy to the ground, Odysseus returns his attention back to Ithaca. While on the hunt for Ithaca, supplies, and for what is truly important in life, he find himself tangled up in a dispute between the…

Odysseus is never truly alone in the story The Odyssey. The gods, goddesses and other characters are an ever present force in odysseus adventure. The most influential gods, goddesses are Athena, Aeolus, Poseidon. First, Athena will be the only god that really cares for odysseus she looks out for him give him helpful hints Athena assists Odysseus and Telemachus with divine powers throughout the epic, and she speaks up for them in the councils of the gods on Mount Olympus. She often appears in…