Odyssey Essay

The presentation of Odysseus in Book 10 of Homer’s Odyssey differs from that in Book 9 and reveals a change in the hero. From a man driven primarily by a desire for kleos (fame and glory) in Book 9, Odysseus’ motivation shift toward a desire to return home (nostos) and ensure the safety of his crew. His interactions between Polyphemus in Book 9 and Circe in Book 10 emphasise his move towards caution and a triumph of metis (cunning, intelligence) over bia (energy, force, power) in his dealings with

Senior IX English September 22, 2014 The Importance of Perspectives in The Odyssey and The Penelopiad Margaret Atwood writes in her novel The Penelopiad “I’ve chosen to give the telling of the story to Penelope and the twelve hanged maids...which focus on two questions that must pose themselves after any close reading of The Odyssey: what led to the hanging of the maids, and what was Penelope really up to?” The Odyssey tells the story of the long journey of Odysseus’s return home to Ithaca after

in ''back from war but not really home '' by Caroline Alexander ,and the odyssey by homer both experience grief in their characters. survival, hope,and pain are the themes in the literature. In book eight of "the odyssey" at dawn,Athene goes around the city in town-crier disguise, shouting the of news the stranger's coming and the upcoming feast. Everyone congregates at the palace. She also makes Odysseus totally studly (studlier) and instills in him a desire to prove himself worthy of any challenge

Greek culture and society, aspects of ancient Greece are shown in The Odyssey. The Odyssey is a work of fiction written by Homer, the epic poem focuses on the great hero Odysseus’s voyage back home to his land of Ithaca. Odysseus goes through many obstacles trying to get home after the Trojan war, he fights monsters, goes to foreign lands, and gets treasure and gold on his way home. Though it is a work of fiction, The Odyssey story and characters are affected by ancient Greek culture and life, this

They Odyssey rough draft Centuries ago "The Odyssey," was written, yet people still find architypes that they could relate to. As I read through "The Odyssey," I came across many different examples of architypes. The main three to me was the monster architype, the hero architype, and then the quest architype. Homer wrote "The Odyssey" somewhere between the fifth century and the eighth century A.D. "The Odyssey," shows how ancient Greeks thought if something were to happen that they didn't understand

The Odyssey’s Real Audience: Who Was It Meant to Be Read By? It could be contested that The Odyssey was intended to appeal to women as the main audience, as evidenced by a strong focus on relationships and female characters. Homer maximizes women, subtly drawing out their power and making them appear larger than life; Penelope is a prime example of this. J.W. Mackail, a Scottish literary historian, also agrees, stating that “Penelope is one of the great women of history. If at first sight she seems

There are many reasons to draw connections amongst Homer and Hesiod. The Greek poet, Homer, who came sometime in the 9th or 8th century B.C., in Ionia (modern-day Turkey), is the writer of “The Iliad” and “The Odyssey”. Hesiod, came around 700 B.C., is often referred to as the “father of didactic poetry”. Hesiod wrote “Theogony” and “Works and Days”. Like Homer, not much is know about him a rhapsodist, a reciter of poems. Both composed in the dactylic hexameter, the traditional meter of Greek epic

and the Odyssey are two classic stories told by Homer. Within these two stories the roles of the gods are very important to the story line and how they affect the characters throughout. In the Iliad, more gods are involved with the characters whereas in the Odyssey there are only two major gods that affect two major characters. The roles of the gods in the Iliad are through two different stances of immortal versus immortal and mortal versus immortal. The roles of the gods in the Odyssey are through

In his stories of the Iliad and the Odyssey, Homer alludes to cherished and rewarded values of time and mortality, a concept that the gods often do not consider due to their divine nature and an advantage that mortals have as means for experiencing purer pleasure. Beginning with the Iliad after Athena warns Achilles to listen and have patience with Agamemnon (Iliad, 7), the dialog between Achilles and his mother particularly stands out with his exclamation, "since you bore me for a short life only

archetypes they encounter in literature. The use of archetypes in The Odyssey help modern readers understand Ancient Greek culture. Some archetypes used in The Odyssey are the hero, the monster/villain, and the idea of temptation. The Odyssey was written as an epic poem in Ancient Greece by a man named Homer. Homer uses archetypes to help readers compare their culture to the culture of Ancient Greeks.     One archetype Homer uses in The Odyssey is the role of the hero. A hero is “an individual who has the