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Book I When I was a young boy, my father left for a journey. Twenty years have passed by, and he still has not returned from that journey. I do not think he is alive anymore. There is no way he could survive twenty years on a journey, is there? I hear my father is an incredible man, but twenty years is a long time. It saddens me to speak of my father which I grew up without, but today it came up. One of my father’s old friends, Mentes, told me that Odysseus is still alive and will be…

In the Odyssey, Homer discusses various topics significant for the Greeks of that era such as hospitality, devotion to gods, faithfulness to one’s spouse, or determination to return home. On the other hand, Virgil’s Aeneid is focused on war and ancient Roman values such as pietas, which stands for loyalty or devotion, or gravitas, which is one’s ability to speak with authority. Furthermore, Sophocles’s play Antigone deals with a character that has to choose between the contradicting laws of the…

There are many different definitions of a hero. Many people have opinionated or moral definitions. Some people say that a hero needs to be physically, mentally, and emotionally strong. Others say that a hero needs to be able to protect the things they love. There are many different variations based on peoples’ perspectives over time. Homer, in the epic poem, The Odyssey, claims that a real hero fights for the things they truly love. Homer supports his claim by telling Odysseus’ journey back to…

abortion performed and the political stigma attached to abortion. There could be home remedies still in practice but if a woman wanted to ensure an abortion the best way would be at a hospital. Other topics which would be modernized is “benna” which is Calypso music would probably become popular music and the type of food for regional foods which most people would know what it was. By modernizing the story it allows the girl to potentially become independent and not have a domesticated…

All of which are mostly if not all either vs. the natural or supernatural. Throughout the story, Odysseus frequently mentions how his biggest wish during these trials to go home, this is most notable during his period of being held by Calypso as Odysseus states, “Where shall a man find the sweetness to surpass his own home and his parents?” Ody. Book 9. Even before the beginning of The Odyssey, it’s stated Odysseus didn’t want to go to The Trojan War because he wanted to stay with his…

The Odyssey Questions Question 8. Yes, Odysseus remains hopeful in a particularly bleak situation. B. Blinded by Odysseus and his men, Polyphemus fills with rage and guards the cavern exit with ill intent to kill any who dare attempt escape. Although little hope remains in the hearts of Odysseus’ men, he knows that there must be a way for him and his comrades to escapes death’s outstretched hands. While many would have been consumed by overwhelming feelings of grief and despair, Odysseus uses…

A Hero’s Son Awakens Athena has had the greatest influence on Telemachus’ growth. Homer’s epic The Odyssey demonstrates Odysseus’s son, Telemachus, at first as an inexperienced, timid, and helpless young prince that is greatly pampered by his mother, Penelope. Due to his lack of confidence and assertiveness, Telemachus struggles to stop the many suitors who overrun his father’s palace and greedily devour the family’s vast stockpile of food and wine. Like Odysseus, Telemachus experiences his own…

The story of the Odyssey is most simply the story of a man returning home. It is an embodiment of the Greek concept of nostos. Odysseus’s journey in the Odyssey provides a transition from the epic scale of war to the more mundane life at home. He is stopped and delayed at multiple points throughout this journey, but ultimately as time progresses he becomes closer and closer to his destination. Just as the Odyssey as a whole addresses this transition from the large and grandiose to the simple and…

Is Odysseus a Hero Or Not? Over the past many years, critics have been asking the question of whether Odysseus is considered a hero or not. Or was he some figure in our greek mythology that used the epithet of a “great hero.” He endured through the toughest of situations and was tested against the most horrific monsters, but he also returned home with zero men, and zero ships. He did some good things, but he also made far too many mistakes on his journey to be pondered a hero. With that being…

Women in Homer’s The Odyssey, Euripides’ Hippolytus, Virgil’s The Aeneid, and Ovid’s Venus and Adonis (And Atalanta) often held positions of power, whether it be a dutiful wife and loving mother, a widowed queen, or a goddess. In these Greco-Roman texts, women hold power by embracing their feminine roles, where a man may “name her as [his] own, that she may spend all of her years with [him], to make [him] father of fair sons” (Virgil: 4). She is expected to be as loyal and motherly as Penelope,…