Calypso

In The Odyssey, by Homer the main protagonist, Odysseus, has a difficult journey. Odysseus is faced with many troubles beyond comprehension: a large war, cyclops, giant cannibals, sirens, sea monsters, and much more. Despite the hardships, Odysseus is able to pull through. There are many factors that help him along the way, the gods for example, but the main source of assistance comes from Odysseus’ heroic qualities. Odysseus’ journey begins when he is drafted to into the military of Greece.…

Music and Black culture The history of black culture goes back approximately 120,000 years in Africa. During this period in time and throughout history, black people have seen times of hierarchy, sorrow, slavery, racism, prejudice, justice and freedom. In these heart breaking and joyous times, music has been a form of expression for the black community in more ways than one. The topic of black culture is something that has gained more and more attention over the past few years. We have seen…

In the movie, we see Odysseus within the character of Ulysses. In the Odyssey, Odysseus is on a long journey home to his kingdom of Ithaca. On his journey he faces many hardships such as the Cyclopes, Poseidon, Calypso and Suitors that are trying to take his beloved wife Penelope away from him. In the movie, Odysseus is portrayed by the character Ever. Ulysses has to try and make it back to his wife and kids, but faces similar hardships as Odysseus such as Big Dan, The Jail Warden, and Vernon T.…

he has done everything for his family. The book makes one believe he was 100% determined to do anything for them at this point after all the monsters and creatures he has battled. In the beginning Odysseus is trapped on an island, prisoner to Calypso. He could of took his own life at this point, but he decided to stay loyal to his family and do his best to fight and arrive home. He waited and waited for years and years, untill the gods delivered the message that he is to return home, “Now…

I walked into the courtroom with everyone’s eyes fixed on me. I turned to the left and sat down by polyphemus. Soft murmurs traveled through the room. I looked over at the defendant,odysseus, and gave him and his lawyer dwight a dirty, confident look. Apparently the whole room saw the look and murmurs got louder. In a hurry, the judge yelled, “Quiet” and slammed his gavel down on the hard wood podium. The room gave out a soft echo. Everyone shut their lips immediately. The judge, with a strong…

Vancouver-born, San Francisco-based Michael Zilber, a talent of the saxophone, a dexterous composer, and a respected educator, exhibited his impressive skills side by side with jazz luminaries such as Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Stitt, Dave Liebman, Miroslav Vitous, and Dave Douglas. Now, leading an elastic quartet whose reliable rhythm section includes Dave Kikoski on piano, James Genus on bass, and Clarence Penn on drums, Zilber prepared “Originals for the Originals”, a beautiful 11-track album…

She don’t did that do they won’t leave because they rarely see men. He was washed upon the land of this beautiful goddess named Calypso, she haven’t seen a male in years so he and the women that lived on her island wasn’t used to being around men so they treated him like a king when did try to escape to his wife through the waters she sent her women out to get him and make sure he…

I like this painting of the Odyssey because I read all of the stories of the Odyssey in 8th grade. I really like the story of the Odyssey because it was filled with adventure and how they had to fight off a one-eyed beast, Calypso, Circe, Sirens, Scylla, Charybdis, and Poseidon. All of the monsters that I named were in the path of Odysseus to prevent them from going back to their home land. I like this painting because it has a wide variety of color to it and shows Odysseus being a brave and…

Odysseus is the legendary king of Ithaca in ancient Greek myth, son of Laertes and Anticleia. He appears in Homer’s epic poems The Iliad and The Odyssey , serving as the protagonist for the latter. He is often portrayed as being extremely smart and clever, and in The Iliad he is credited with creating the Trojan Horse, which famously allows the Greeks to get inside the city of Troy and ultimately win the war. He actually tries to avoid serving in the war, attempting to pose as a mad farmer and…

In Homer’s Greek epic, The Odyssey, Odysseus possesses several characteristics that qualify him to be a man of honor in classical Greek literature. However, in Emily Wilson’s translation, Odysseus’s epithet is described as “complicated”, and in Robert Fagles’s translation, he is referred to as a “man of twists and turns” (Homer, The Odyssey, 1.1). Odysseus’s moral values encompass those of a hero, such as his outstanding capabilities as a warrior and tactician, but his negligence and exaggerated…