The Odyssey Essay

In The Odyssey, one important idea that is communicated is perseverance. Closely entwined with patience, perseverance is the act of getting back up on your feet after an emotional, or physical disaster. The Odyssey teaches that you have to keep going even when your plan gets destroyed, to never stop. If Odysseus did not have perseverance, would he have kept going after his crew released the air bag or ate the sacred cattle? Would he have pushed forward when Polyphemus the giant trapped him and…

The “Odyssey” by Homer is like a walk through life because you face fear and hardships. you have to overcome. Like Odysseus I will face betrayal and monsters that will get in my way. But even if I may face trials I’ll get through them and move on. So like Odysseus facing trials trying to get home, I’ll face trials trying to reach my goal. If I want to work with animals or be an artist I will have to go through some of the same trials as odysseus did. One trial are the people like the cyclopes…

Though both considered romances, The Odyssey and tales of Wayland the smith differ greatly in narrative and context. Homer’s The Odyssey is an epic poem composed in the eighth century Before Christ, detailing the nostos—or homecoming—of the hero Odysseus after the Trojan War, while tales of Wayland, such as in the tenth century Old English lament Deor , the tenth century Old Norse poem Völundarkviða and the thirteenth century Old Norse prose narrative The Story of Velent the Smith , tell of…

Fight for Home “The Odyssey” by Homer is a myth of a man who is the main protagonist of the story. The story demonstrates the importance of home. This is revealed when Odysseus shows he is persistent and has temptation on his journey home. When he reaches obstacles he follows a method and beats them every time. His perseverance leads to him finally reaching Ithaca after twenty-years on the seas. Odysseus realizes that if he does not give up hope and he trudges through each hardship at sea he…

Throughout the Odyssey, hospitality was shown as an important aspect. It shared many instances where strangers treated strangers like family. As the story focused on the travels of Telemachus and Odysseus, I noticed many times where people treated them well and welcomed them with gifts. Compared to modern times, hospitality was very useful within society, people were treated with kindness and generosity because of the fear towards the gods, they did this through welcoming one another into each…

With the prior books, Penelope has been portrayed to be easily perturbed by information and unable to properly control or overcome those anxieties. For instance, in Book 1 of The Odyssey, Penelope is consumed with apprehension regarding Odysseus’s return. Her misery over her husband’s absence prevents her from moving onward with her life, resorting to being stagnant. Gazing at his mother’s hopeless state, Telemachus rebukes Penelope…

The Theogony as Role of Citizenship by Kyle Herman The Theogony should be required reading in the Ohio State freshmen curriculum over The Odyssey because the Theogony better demonstrates the role of citizenship through the importance of cooperation and the freedom to choose. The Theogony should be required reading in the freshmen curriculum over The Odyssey because it emphasizes the importance of cooperation. In the Theogony, Typhon plans to rule over the Gods and humans. Zeus notices Typhon’s…

The Odyssey into a feature film the theme of the film would be a young high school freshmen trying desperately to get over the heartbreak of her last relationship. She had a boyfriend of two years and found that he was cheating on her at a party on their two year anniversary. She thankfully has her two best friends to help her through the obstacles that are just the after effects of her heart break and that will finally get her back on her feet. The reasons to why you should make The Odyssey…

do the story justice. Homer’s Book Nine of The Odyssey recounts the adventures of the hero Odysseus while he is lost at sea. It is no surprise that this exceptional epic is taken and reproduced in movie form, nevertheless after studying both mediums, I find that the book conveys heavier…

On pages 148-151 of Homer’s The Odyssey, men feel that they are superior to the Cyclopes because their laws and civilization differs. Homer uses anthesis to portray that the mankind’s civilization is far beyond the lawless and unruly way of the Cyclopes. For example, Homer uses the words “savages” versus “men” and also “hospitable” versus “lawless”. Homer illustrates with these anthesis that Cyclopes are not intelligent for the savage way they live. Homer believes that since men are usually…