Odyssey

men. The roles that women fill in the odyssey are of traits that greek women would want to have, and more importantly, what men and other members of their community would expect them to have. Penelope and Princess Nausicaa show women who were listening to The Odyssey how they should behave. But, warning examples are also shown in the forms of Circe and Calypso women who whose demeanors were unwanted for women in ancient Greece. The mortal women in the odyssey give examples of heroism without…

The Odyssey: The Three Forces of Fortune Odysseus’ travel from the war torn ruins of Troy to his suitor-filled home in Ithaca contains much excitement, danger, and majesty. Homer’s hero, Odysseus, has many adventures in his journey home ranging from battling the Cicones, to tricking a Cyclops, to being imprisoned by a sea-nymph for seven years. He is constantly moving from the known world to the mythical world which makes his journey even more dangerous. He goes through extreme hardship in…

from Penelope Polutropos, feels that the intelligence of Penelope in The Odyssey overlooked. Penelope's ongoing conflict with the suitors demonstrates her cunning and wity ways, but it also portrays her intelligence as a character in the Odyssey. Through Penelope's schemes against the suitors and her maintenance of her social status, or stature, Penelope has proven that she is equally as important as Odysseus in Homer's Odyssey. Penelope's well-formed tricks on the suitors further…

this paper, I will look at the themes in The Odyssey and Inferno. The theme I will look at first is journeys. In the Odyssey, Odysseus struggles to return to his home and family. His journey takes ten years to complete. Unlike Odysseus whose journey is physical in the Inferno, Dante’s journey encompasses the struggle between good and evil within himself. Dante see’s the afterlife as consisting of three level heaven, purgatory and hell. In the Odyssey as Odysseus is traveling back to Ithaca he…

Homer was a blind, oral poet who created both The Odyssey and The Iliad. Homer told these epics in many short episodes, then editors would write down the epics and arranged them into books. Homer wrote The Odyssey for entertainment, he does this by depicting events dealing with interaction between the gods and men. The Odyssey is set after the sack of Troy and tells the story of Odysseus’ nostos –journey home- to Ithaca. The epic poem shows us the nature of heroism in classical Greece, and…

Throughout the Odyssey Odysseus’ plays the “godlike” hero which set the standards for values and traits of the Homeric Greek man. Using his cunning intellect and valiant heroism to finds his way home after many trials and tribulations. During his travel home Odysseus gains knowledge about other peoples culture and about different lands throughout Greece. He learns from his own suffering and the mistakes he had made. Odysseus started his journey as the King of Ithaca and the warrior of all…

Why Every OSU Freshman Should Read the Odyssey by Valerie Lin & The motto of OSU is Disciplina in Civitatem, “Education for Citizenship”, meaning the goal of the university is to teach the students to become better citizens. All students could be benefited from all three works: the Odyssey, the Trojan Women, the Iliad. However, from reading Homer’s Odyssey, the students can learn something that could benefit them for their lifetime; it teaches the students about the importance of having hope,…

strait, intelligence. Many view Odysseus as the hero of the Odyssey but there is another character that has the same traits as Odysseus and that is Penelope, his wife. She is often forgotten in the shadow of her husband even though she is essential to the story. Ovid’s Heroines by Daryl Hine brings Penelope into the light and shows that she is much more than the wife of an Odysseus, but a hero, just as great as her husband. The Odyssey has been as much Penelope’s journey as it is Odysseus.…

The Odyssey by Homer is a perfect example of an epic. For an epic to be considered an epic it needs to have a physically impressive hero of national or historical importance, a vast setting encompassing much of the known physical world and, sometimes the land of the dead. It needs to have a quest or journey undertaken in search of something of value, the involvement of supernatural forces, glorification of the hero at the end, and a basis in a specific culture or society. The Odyssey has all the…

goddesses, and monsters fascinate you? The epic poem The Odyssey written by the one and only Greek poet Homer consists of Odysseus’s journey home after the defeating Trojans. Odysseus runs into trouble and dangerous paths through his way and cannot manage to get back home to his land, Ithaca. Odysseus has to find his way out with or without their help. Odysseus uses his leadership to get his crew and himself through the rough travel. In The Odyssey, Homer not only captivates his readers with…