Arts And Humaities Through The Eras, By Edward I. Bleiberg
In the Odyssey, there are many themes and lessons to be learned, as well as similarities to different stories of the time. The Odyssey contains many lessons to teach about temptation as well as endurance. Also, They Odyssey contains similarites to another epic of the time, The Illiad. The article from
Arts and Humaities Through the Eras, by Edward I. Bleiberg, explains how the Odyssey relates to some key points of the article. One way the Odyssey relates to the article is through the explanation of one of the themes of the book: you have to have endurance, and not give into the temptation. Another way that the Odyssey can relate to the article I just read is through the explanation of another epic written at the time, The Illiad. In this essay, the Odyssey …show more content…
This can help with relating the Odyssey to other things in that time period. It gave a lot of background both on the Odyssey and other literary works, as well as things that were happening in that era. One of the sections that was very interesting was the part explaining the Odyssey. There was a lot of similarities between the Illiad and the Odyssey. Possibly the similarities lie in the author, who is the same for both the Odyssey and the Illiad, so there might be similar character development, as the same mind wrote all of the characters. The Illiad is about the war between the Greeks and Trojans. The
Greeks had an invincible warrior, Achillies, who was dipped in the River Styx as a baby, which made him invincible everywhere, except his heel, which did not touch the river. Achillies was stamped as Greece's best warrior, but was not the army's leader. The leader of the army was named Agamemnon. Achillies'
"status as Greece's best warrior sets him up for conflict with...Agamemnon" (Bleiberg et al. 124). This is similar to The Odyssey because at some parts
Arts and Humaities Through the Eras, by Edward I. Bleiberg, explains how the Odyssey relates to some key points of the article. One way the Odyssey relates to the article is through the explanation of one of the themes of the book: you have to have endurance, and not give into the temptation. Another way that the Odyssey can relate to the article I just read is through the explanation of another epic written at the time, The Illiad. In this essay, the Odyssey …show more content…
This can help with relating the Odyssey to other things in that time period. It gave a lot of background both on the Odyssey and other literary works, as well as things that were happening in that era. One of the sections that was very interesting was the part explaining the Odyssey. There was a lot of similarities between the Illiad and the Odyssey. Possibly the similarities lie in the author, who is the same for both the Odyssey and the Illiad, so there might be similar character development, as the same mind wrote all of the characters. The Illiad is about the war between the Greeks and Trojans. The
Greeks had an invincible warrior, Achillies, who was dipped in the River Styx as a baby, which made him invincible everywhere, except his heel, which did not touch the river. Achillies was stamped as Greece's best warrior, but was not the army's leader. The leader of the army was named Agamemnon. Achillies'
"status as Greece's best warrior sets him up for conflict with...Agamemnon" (Bleiberg et al. 124). This is similar to The Odyssey because at some parts