Examples Of Greed In The Odyssey

Odysseus has been held in Polyphemus’s cave for some time now, so he devises a plan of escape. Odysseus speaks out to his crew for help saying “Who’d brave it out with me to hoist our stake and grind it into his eye.” (221) This foreshadows Odysseus and his crew grinding the stake into the cyclops eye, ultimately leading to the crew's escape. As his journey home escalates and challenges become harder, Odysseus is faced with the ultimatum for the The Cattle of The Sun. Prior to his decision he is warned “Leave the beast unharmed, your mind set on home, and you all may still reach Ithaca-but harm them in any way, and I can see it now: your ship destroyed, your men destroyed as well, and even if you escape, you'll come home late, all shipmates lost, and come a broken man.” (275) Homer includes the foreshadowing of the blind prophet's statement, informing spectators of the two possible outcomes based off Odysseus and his crew's choice. Before the slaughter of the suitors has even occurred, Homer foreshadows the event vaguely. As the suitors continue to disrespect Odysseus it is brought to their attention that, “Once under his own roof, he and your friends, believe you me, won’t part till blood has flowed” (380) The foreshadowment is obvious when stated “won't part till blood has flowed”, implying that in time to come Odysseus will not part from the suitors unless blood has been

Circe gives him a life of ease and self-indulgence on an enchanted island. In Phaecia, Odysseus is offered the love of a young princess and her hand in marriage. The Sirens tempt him to live in the memory of the glorious past. Calypso, the goddess with whom he spends seven years, offers him the greatest temptation of all: immortality. In refusing, Odysseus chooses the human condition, with all its struggle, its disappointments, and its inevitable end. And the end, death, is ever-present. But he hangs on tenaciously and, in the midst of his ordeals, he is sent living to the world of the dead to see for himself what death means.” (Lawall,

“…When men compete for the hand of a lady, A woman of some worth, a rich man’s daughter. They bring cattle, and fat sheep, To feast the bride’s friends, and they give her Glorious gifts. They do not devour Another’s livelihood without recompense.” She spoke, and Odysseus, the godlike survivor, Smiled inwardly to see how she extracted gifts

Ruled by emotions, our overpowering heart makes us human. For Odysseus, he was ruled by arrogance on his journey home after his Trojan War victory. Arrogance is a matter of the mind; the mind deceives humans into thinking that they are greater than the bigger picture of life. So, as punishment for believing himself above the gods, the gods sentence Odysseus to a ten year journey lost at sea among challenges and temptations. Meanwhile, Odysseus’ wife Penelope and son Telemachus suffer at home in the kingdom of Ithaca. In Odysseus’ story, the secondary characters symbolize the traits of human experience, such as greed, lust, love, and hope that will serve to teach Odysseus of his humanity.

Men who fear nothing are shameless. But men who think about how their actions may affect others and how their legacy will be reflected on by future generations are brimming with arete. The suitors Shameless, and lackadaisical throughout the Odyssey, they continuously display anti-arete. They think that Penelope, a sensible woman, is going to have respect for them as they are tearing her husband's house apart. Later in the Odyssey, in Book 21 page 435, Penelope finally expresses her disdain for the suitor's behavior: “ ‘How can you hope for any public fame at all...

The Odyssey, an epic poem written by Homer, is about the war hero Odysseus' ten year adventure to return to his home, Ithaca, after the Trojan War, only to find his journey interrupted by monsters and gods. A lesson that one can take out of the epic poem, has to do with the repercussions of hubris. Hubris can be seen when one shows excessive pride, usually in a negative manner. Throughout this epic poem, Homer explains that the presence of negative traits is the result of hubris.

So horrible, that out of the many men that accompanied him, he was the only survivor. When he returned home, he found out that a hole bunch of men were parading around his home, trying to become the new King of Ithaca. He wanted to meet with his wife, but he disguised himself as an old beggar, to test Penelope. To test if she had been unfaithful. ( Even though he slept with two Goddess ) He found out that his wife had set up a challenge. No other man had been able to pass it. So he grabbed his bow, and stringed it. He shot the arrow through the twelve axes. Seconds later he turned back into his regular self. After that it was a slaughter. All of the men in that room were dead. He rushed up to go see his wife. She tested him to make sure it was really Odysseus. After she knew, she rushed to his arms. Returning home, was definitely a great obstacle for

Who are the most successful powerful people in the world? Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg can be an answer to this question. Another answer could be the least greedy, least foolish, and sensible people. This also true in ‘The Odyssey’, by Homer, translated by Robert Fitzgerald. In the epic poem, Odysseus goes to fight in the Trojan war and then returns home.

After Odysseus and his men are on the boat, he calls out to Polyphemus, “Cyclops- if any man on the face of the earth should ask you who blinded you, shamed you so- say Odysseus raider of cities, he gouged out your eye, Laertes’ son who makes his home in Ithaca”(IX). His pride from escaping the Cyclops’s lair gives him a rush which causes him to tell Polyphemus his name. By telling the Cyclops his name, Odysseus seals his fate for the rest of his journey home. Once Polyphemus learns the name of his attacker, “,,,[Polyphemus] prayed and the god of the sea-blue mane Poseidon heard his prayer”(IX). Polyphemus is able to curse Odysseus’ journey home, because he knows his name. Once he curses Odysseus, the man’s way home becomes distorted, drawn-out, and difficult. Because Odysseus lets his pride get the better of him, his simple journey home becomes years of twists and

After a long journey back from the Trojan War, he encounters superhuman beings, luring traps and sea beasts. Finally he reached his home land of Ithaca, where he kills suitors trying to court his wife. After the suitors are dead, Odysseus confronts his wife, Penelope, but she still refuses to acknowledge his reality. Finally she knows he is real because Odysseus tells her about their

One flaw that existed in ancient greek times and still exists today is greed. One can see acts of greed by the suitors when Telemachus is talking to Athena he says “All the nobles who rule the islands round about, Dulichion, and Same, and wooded Zacynthus too, and all who lord it in rocky Ithaca as well— down to the last man they court my mother, they lay waste my house! And mother … she neither rejects a marriage she despises nor can she bear to bring the courting to an end— while they continue to bleed my household white. Soon—you wait—they’ll grind me down as well”(1.286-294). Greed is shown by the described behavior of the suitors, they take as much from odysseus's household as they want however they contribute very little. Their acts of greed are unacceptable especially when it is considered that the suitors contributed very little or nothing to the household. Another example of greed in the Odyssey is when is when Odysseus's crew mistakes a bag of wind for plunder and opens it hoping to steal some gold. One man said “Look at our captain’s luck—so loved by the world, so prized at every landfall, every port of call. Heaps of lovely plunder he hauls home from Troy, while we who went through slogging just as hard, we go home empty-handed”(10.idk the line number). Then the shipmates opened the bag expecting to find gold, silver, and plunder but instead they found squalls that whipped them back out to sea. Odysseus and his crew were so close to home when acts of jealousy

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Chapter 12- Odysseus’s story continues with Odysseus burying Elpenor, where Circe tells him what to do. Then, he goes through the Sirens song and Scylla with his crew. Afterwards, the Sun makes Zeus punish Odysseus, which he does, by destroying his ship. Odysseus ends the story with him reaching Ogygia.

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