Characters in the Odyssey

respect and faith that Odysseus gives to Athena is not confined to just trust and prayers and newly built altars as it is with God—Odysseus’s respect and faith exists through his wit and wisdom and how he shares these traits with Athena throughout the Odyssey. For the Goddess of Wisdom, who is the very personification of these traits, it’s the highest respect a human can demonstrate, just as Abraham and Jacob demonstrate their highest respects to God by their own…

still do it. Homer’s epic poem, The Odyssey, Odysseus is a hero. He performed acts of bravery and intelligence to protect his crew . Doc Hendley created a foundation to save the lives of men, women, and children all around the world. A true hero completes selfless courageous acts despite the obstacles they pose without expecting any reward. While putting others first, Doc Hendley and Odysseus demonstrated the core aspects of a true hero. In the epic The Odyssey the…

epithets, Homer the author of The Odyssey, elaborates on the idea that the Gods hand out fortune and pain to mortals, primarily seen through the help Odysseus receives in his successful odyssey home. The power of Greek Gods and Goddess’ is limitless as their powers are supernatural. Divine intervention is used by Homer to emphasize how Odysseus, without the Gods and Goddess help, would not have made it very far into his journey back home to Ithaka. An example in The Odyssey where divine…

Today people in society accomplish great tasks but may become hindered due to their bad traits. Traits including greed and boastfulness make up negative traits that cause people to do the wrong thing. Similarly, in the eighth century epic poem, The Odyssey, the author Homer demonstrates the traits of cunning, the need for glory, articulate dialect, and boastfulness. positive and negative traits lie within the epic hero, Odysseus. Cunning people can have a great advantage. Odysseus shows his…

explain natural phenomenons to cover up what has yet to be discovered. Stories like The Odyssey were told to explain the unknown. In ancient Greece, philosophers began to use real science and math to figure out the mysteries and ever since the Greeks started this revolution people have been frantically searching for the reason for life, and our purpose on Earth. In ancient Greece, math and science sprouted…

vital to a relationship is loyalty. With loyalty comes reward and with disloyalty comes consequences. Loyalty builds trust while disloyalty destroys relationships. Homer expresses the significance of these values throughout the Iliad and the Odyssey. The characters’ acts of loyalty and/or disloyalty proves how valuable loyalty truly is. In a relationship, loyalty strengthens the bonds between two parties. Achilles always listens to his mother’s wisdom and advice (72). Achilles is then able to…

differentiation between the vain and the depleted present day world and the transcendent time of old Greece, James Joyce gave a system of the Odyssey of Homer to his magnum opus. Leopold Bloom is Ulysses, Stephen, who is the profound child of Bloom is connected to Ulysses' child, Telemachus and Molly speaks to Ulysses' better half, Penelope. Homer's Odyssey has 18 scenes and Ulysses keeps up a similar number of…

male’s job to hunt and kill while females had a more protective role.The difference between men's and women's cruelty is that women are more defensive in their savagery while men tend to be more aggressive. An example of a defensive woman is in The Odyssey. Penelope is a rather timid woman who says little. However, when her son is threatened, she is quick to speak up and call out Antinous, who is in her words “Violent, vicious, scheming” (book XVI, pg 276) along with many other insults. She even…

does not consist of rhyming words. According to Sacks, “Greek poetry did not employ rhyme; the Greek language had too many natural rhymes for this to be considered beautiful.” During these times Rhapsoidoi or Aoidoi would recite poems such as the Odyssey and Iliad for shows and festivals as entertainment. Poetry was either sang or said in a steady tone. Sacks mention “Today the non-Homeric epics exist only in fragments quoted by later writers.” The Homeric and non- Homeric was one of the most…

What is the most important quality of an honorable leader? In The Odyssey, Odysseus is looked upon as an admirable leader for his accomplishment. While reading this epic, the majority people can notice some characteristics that a leader needs to possess. Odysseus shows multiple positive character traits, but the most important one is persistence. Persistence is the main factor of telling a good leader from a bad one because without it you have no way of solving any solution. Odysseus’s most…