Circe

allows them to escape from the cyclops’ cave unnoticed. Odysseus demonstrates true bravery by his action on the island of Aeaea. After his shipmates have been turned into swine, Odysseus boldly ventures out alone to rescue them from the witch goddess Circes. In addition to his positive characteristics, Odysseus also has some flaws. For example, while in Polyphemus’s cave, Odysseus lies and says that he does not have a ship. He deceivingly explains “Poseidon Lord, who sets the earth a-tremble,…

The gods actions in The Odyssey affects Odysseus's odds returning home by either helping or sabotaging his journey home. In The Odyssey by Homer Odysseus struggles to get back home to Ithaca to see his wife and son. Odysseus and his ten year journey got stalled by cyclopses, pretty girls and even Poseidon. His men aren't much help causing even more problems in his journey home. Without the gods help Odysseus would have never returned home. Athena, Hermes and Aiolos are just three of the gods…

their God(s). To begin with,Odysseus is loyal to his country.Odysseus goes to war with troy to serve his own country. king and king made Odysseus go to war with troy so that Ithaca doesn’t get attacked.(Movie) Another example of Odysseus loyalty is Circe tells Odysseus he may leave but can’t go straight home.(pg 758). Odysseus doesn’t turn his back on his men when they open the bag of wind.(pg 757). Secondly, Odysseus is Loyal to his Family.Odysseus doesn’t want to go fight so he fakes…

While Circe, the sea-goddess, urges him to avoid both the seducing Sirens, and the terrifying sea-beasts, Skylla and Charybdis, his personal agenda steers him and his crew into harms way. The god-like protagonist decides on behalf of his crewmembers several life threating decisions that prompt the reader to question his leadership intuition—Odysseus essentially destroys his ship along with his companions because his “mind is full forever of fight/ and battle work” (XII, 116-7). Here, Circe…

the Cyclops lives. The Cyclops keeps his men captive as he systematically eats them, while Odysseus devises a plan to escape the island and free the rest of his surviving peers. Odysseus also faces Syclla and Charybdis which are two sea monsters. Circe tells Odysseus that he will face either Scylla or Charybdis and his men will die. Instead of staying on her island where none of his men will die but Odysseus decides to continue his journey back home and embraces the challenge of facing the sea…

of war and wisdom, who gave courage, hope and mental strength for Odysseus and his family and Circe, the witch that kept Odysseus and his crew…

Odysseus The Hero Since there have been vast changes over the years on what is considered morally and socially correct, people have started to question whether or not Odysseus, from The Odyssey by Homer, should be considered a hero. Before we can answer this question, we must first ask ourselves; what makes a hero? In my personal opinion, a hero is someone who is able to make an effort to help rescue someone in some way. In the Odyssey, Odysseus does everything he can to save his crew from…

they almost eat his men, while on their way passing the island of Cyclopes. Only with Odysseus intelligence they escape. He later encounters Circe, the beautiful witch goddess at the land of Aeaea. Circe later turns a group of his men into pigs by drugging them. Hermes talks to Odysseus and tells him to eat a herd called moly to protect himself from Circes drug and then lunge at her when she tries to hit him with her sword. Hermes plan works out…

succumb to the potion and how to get his men back. When he finally arrives he successfully avoids being turned into an animal and tries to make a deal with Circe. However she only agrees to set his men free if he sleeps with her, he decides whether or not to cheat on his wife. He chooses the only option he has and agrees to sleep with Circe. However after the deal he and his crew decide to stay on the island instead of leaving. This has a negative consequence which that the time on the…

That stunt he pulled with Circe in Book 10 was pretty impressive, but none of it was really him. It was one of those moments when no one knew what to do and they were all waiting for someone to save the day, but it wasn’t Odysseus who saved the day. Odysseus was prepared to walk…