The Poseidon Adventure

The Odyssey was originally written by Homer and published into paper form circa 700 b.c.e. Robert Fagles adopted and translated the story. Fagles’ version was published in 1908 by the Oxford University Press. The story follows the grand adventures of the great King Odysseus and his quest to return to his kingdom from foreign lands. Along the way, Odysseus meets with great trials and tribulations. Not only is Odysseus a great and loyal king, he is also a courageous and strong soldier. Due to the…

and conflicts throughout their adventures, but they always manage to solve the issue. Sherlock Holmes shows the complexity of human heroes through his strengths and flaws in a similar way that the Greeks created Odysseus. Sherlock…

When braving the sea and facing throngs of daunting tasks while leading a crew, one must be an excellent leader. Odysseus, the Greek hero featured in Homer's the Odyssey, has to find his way home after a ten-year Trojan War. Along the way, he encounters many ferocious beasts and arduous challenges that he must triumph over. With the trust of his crew, he has a responsibility to get them home safely. Overall, Odysseus is an unsuccessful leader because he puts their lives in danger, does not stop…

stop provoking the cyclops. The use of the word begged reinforces the existence of Odysseus’ monomania. Not even his pleading men could stop Odysseus from seeking his own glory. Placing his quest for glory above the lives of his men, Odysseus causes Poseidon to curse them all. In these moments, Odysseus exhibits stubbornness that will arise repeatedly throughout his voyage. Even after Odysseus risks his men’s lives to satiate his own petty lust for glory, he reminds them that it was he who…

HUM1: Demeter in the Hymn to Demeter is More Closely Resemble to Penelope in The Odyssey than Calypso In The Odyssey, Calypso resembles herself as Demeter, the goddess in Hymn to Demeter. However, Penelope in The Odyssey is more closely resembled to Demeter. Penelope and Demeter share one thing in common. When Demeter and Penelope struggle to fight with authority or pressure for their loved ones, Persephone and Odysseus, Persephone and Odysseus also suffered simultaneously when Demeter and…

Society is always changing, but there are underlying universal truths that. In Aristophanes's Birds, Athenians Pithetaerus and Euelipides seek asylum from the monstrous nature of the corrupt and greedy politicians that plague the human world by joining their perceived utopia with the birds, but find that the hunger for power is universal throughout civilization. Where Aristophanes tells about the troubling nature of humans through the characterization of birds, Plato addresses his own personal…

Homer’s poem, The Odyssey, is a story of, Odysseus, the hero behind the Trojan Horse. After ten years fighting and then winning the Trojan War, Odysseus sets for home. Unfortunately, he unexpectedly faces much adversity in his travels, including becoming a goddess’ sex slave and losing all of his men to the sun god. It takes Odysseus another ten years to finally get home, where he must fight to take back his wife and thrown. On August 21, 2017, I will be 34 years old and I have lived an epic…

Odysseus encountered Cyclops twice in this section of the book, once with his men when he landed on an island full of them. They didn 't make any contact with them at all, though shortly after seeing the island of the Cyclops they landed on an different island that they believed was safe and possibly uninhabited. They ended up being very wrong when they discovered a cave filled with sheep, cheese, and one blood thirsty giant. Did I mention that they knew he lived in the cave and continued to…

Though there are many works from ancient Greece that survived, there are two authors that are the most well-known or frequently taught. Homer’s two epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, are perhaps the most well-known, because of the heroes epic battles of strength and wit against those deemed as enemies. Hesiod’s Works and Days, however, may be the most pertinent to finding out how everyday citizens of ancient Greece went about their everyday lives. These epics detail the lives of both…

Poseidon is just one of many gods in Greek mythology. Poseidon however is the god of the sea, horses, and earthquakes. The reason on why Poseidon is famous is because the sea is his domain meaning that he can decide which ship gets trapped in a hurricane, or which one gets a calm sail, and the sea was a very popular way of travel for the Greeks in ancient times. Greek sailors would pray for calm weather and safe passage. The reason why Poseidon is important to learn about is because he was a…