Ithaca

Aeaea, Circe’s island. Through this decision, the king had made many mistakes whether it be due to desire or his ego. Once on Circe’s island, his men were turned into swine, and Odysseus saved his men, but it cost him another stop from returning to Ithaca. The king spent an extended amount of time on the island; he was forced to take a different route home, otherwise he would have been sailing through the seas if the nymph’s island was avoided. Odysseus had made a poor decision by exploring…

Odysseus is a hero according to him being loyal to anybody and helping others out in order to get to Ithaca to his family and kingdom. He may be a hero, but mostly if he were one, he would not had had let some of his men die and suffer. For all reasons he once went into a cave because of his curiosity and got his men eaten by Polyphemus. There was one time he got a prophecy about how his men wouldn’t survive but he had kept the secret to himself. But at the same time he did his best to help his…

strength to carry on for 20 years to find your home? In Homer’s timeless epic the Odyssey, Odysseus (of Ithaca) is a true hero. A hero is someone who is loyal to their country, loyal to their family, and loyal to 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…

returning to Ithaca. … “Ah poor man, why is the god of earthquakes so dead set against you? Strewing your way with such a crop of troubles! But he can’t destory you, not for all his anger. …” In Book 9, Homer explains the reason of Poseidon’s anger, and why Odysseus was kept away from Ithaca for so long. When Odysseus took Cyclops’ only…

task ahead; returning home to Ithaca. “I know you would follow me now, you have always followed me. You are my warriors. We have suffered the loss of many men, and together, we’ve survived. -Odysseus. Odysseus gives this inspirational speech to his men right before he goes to see the blind prophet, Telemachus, in the underworld. He may never see his men again, and he wants his crew to know that they are great warriors without him, and they don’t need him to reach Ithaca . “we may never be in…

twelve steps to complete their adventure. The first step to a hero’s journey is called the ordinary world. This is the step where we see the hero living their normal life until their call to adventure. In the Odyssey, Odysseus’s “ordinary world” is in Ithaca with his wife Penelope and his new born son Telemachus…

cannibalistic cyclops. He also killed off the strongest men in Ithaca and took back his kingdom. Imagine being caught in one of those scenes in a movie where people on a fishing boat are stuck out in the middle of a storm while trying to haul in the biggest fish on the planet. Now imagine that you're on your handmade wooden raft and you just *issd off the god of the sea. Welcome to Odysseus’s struggles as he tries to get back to Ithaca. Most of the time in…

Book XI: Odysseus and his men travel from Circe’s island to the house of Hades. Odysseus makes the drink and animal offerings that Circe had ordered him to. He prays to the dead, promising to make more sacrifices when he returns to Ithaca. The ghosts of the dead then begin to appear around the blood of the sacrificed animals, but, just as Circe advised him, Odysseus draws his sword and keeps all of them away until Teiresias drinks of it. Odysseus is first asked by the ghost of Elpenor, a boy…

him. Odysseus and his crew were able to leave the island, but before leaving he made a foolish mistake. “If any man on the face of the earth should ask you so- say Odysseus, raider of cities, he gouged out your eye, Laertes son who makes his home in Ithaca” (Homer 227). This was a careless response to leaving, this…

ITHACA — The shrewd, courageous and tactful Odysseus has returned to Ithaca after 20 years. Disguised as a beggar, he has slaughtered the suitors who have plagued his house for years. With no word of Odysseus for ages, it seemed hopeless for his wife Penelope to see him once again. Stubborn and unwilling to marry the brazen and selfish suitors, she prolonged her marriage by unweaving her web. By doing so, it may have been the perfect amount of stall time for Odysseus’s return. The goddess…