Scylla

Bob Dylan, an American musician, formerly said, “A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom”. Dylan’s words remain intact in Homer’s The Odyssey. In this epic, Odysseus, the main character, is leaving to fight in the Trojan War. The war itself takes ten years. The journey back home takes another ten years. Throughout his journey back home, Odysseus is put to the test with his actions in physical and mental ways. The actions Odysseus takes during his journey…

Mythological creatures are a constant in many Greek myths. Whether they play a large role in the plot of the myth, or they are simply a bystander, these creatures encompass excitement and fantasy to stories many years after their origin. From Heracles ' Twelve Labors, in which the Greek hero slain multiple monsters, to Odysseus ' adventure in Homer 's the Odyssey, these beings play an exciting role in the growth of many Greek heroes in Classical Mythology. The Twelve Labors of Heracles began…

Part 1: Odysseus Ordinary world: The Odyssey begins in Ithaca, King Odysseus’ home where he lives with his wife Penelope and newborn son Telemachus. Call to Adventure: Odysseus’ call to adventure begins with the Trojan War. When the Trojans attack the Greeks, Odysseus must travel to Troy to lead the armies in battle. Refusal of the call: Odysseus reacts pessimistically and has to make sure it is not a trick, but he answers the call! He is also hesitant since his first son Telemachus was just…

she loves him and risk going to hell for lying in a church, or tell the man that she doesn't love him and feel guilt for not responding to a dying man’s last wish. As for Odysseus, he has to choose between two monsters that he face. One of which is Scylla, who has twelve tentacles and six heads, each head has a big black monstrous mouth with sharp teeth. If Odysseus were to take his crew this way, he would lose six of his men, one for each month the monster has.…

Equality Within the comforts of the modernized human civilization that we all experience upon a daily basis, a person can easily forget how privileged they are to be existing in such a time of human equality and take that for-granted. However, times were not always as pleasant as they currently are; different diversities of people were not only shamed for their race, gender or ethnicity, but they were abused for it. In addition to that, abuse of this kind happened less than a hundred years ago…

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…

sailors to the jagged rocks of their island by singing the sweetest songs, only to transform into birds and eat their victims when they got close. The crew would then reach a strait with Scylla, a six-headed monster and Charybdis, and a literal whirlpool on each side. Wisely, Odysseus opts to sail towards Scylla, as losing six men was better than losing an entire ship; it was the lesser of two evils. Odysseus would then lose his entire crew on the island of the sun. Against the orders of…

Furthermore in book twelve, Odysseus and his men travel through the dangerous ocean where sea monsters like the Sirens, Charybdis, and Brown 2 Scylla lurk in the water ( Homer 1232- 1233). However, Odysseus decides to only tell his crew about the Sirens because Circe’s prophecy states that he will lose men in the battle with Charybdis and Scylla (Homer 1234).This point from book twelve implies how Odysseus is erudite because he knew that telling his crew about the monsters would only…

cave; escaping Circe, a witch who turns his men into pigs; enduring the Sirens, bird-women who kill sailors by enhancing them with their voices, driving them into throwing themselves overboard; navigating the Strait of Messina and its two guardians, Scylla, a monstrous woman with six dog heads around her waist, each of which kidnaps and devours a man from each ship that passes her, and Charybdis, a demon-whirlpool that swallows ships whole; surviving a horrendous storm sent by Zeus to sink his…

the land of the Cyclopes and got captured his men were panicking and didn't know what to do but odysseus kept his cool because he knew he was capable of many things and made two plans and they both worked. Odysseus even got through the seirenes, scylla, and charybdis. As brave as he is, he did what he was suppose to do to get through the challenges he faced in the book. Traits in the book that made odysseus an epic hero was intelligence and he had the ability he knew what he needed to do to get…