at once‚ rapping them on the ground / he knocked them dead like pups - / their brains gushed out all over‚ soaked the floor - / and ripping them limb from limb to fix his meal / he bolted them down like a mountain - lion‚ left no scrap” (Homer 9 324-329). Homer creates a vivid image in the reader’s mind‚ using words like “limb to limb” and “dead like pups” to form an unsavory situation. The
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Does it ever cross your mind how two very different pieces of entertainment are alike? In the epic‚ “The Odyssey” by‚ Homer and in the movie‚ Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope the two main characters‚ Odysseus‚ and Luke Skywalker undergo a hero journey. A Hero’s Journey is a pattern of narrative that appears in drama‚ storytelling‚ and myths in which involves a hero who goes on an adventure‚ and in a crisis wins a victory‚ and then comes home changed or transformed. Their journeys are both different
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The Odyssey by Homer is a classic epic poem that is popularly studied centuries later to describe the harsh reality of how simple people and things can move on without someone in their life; catholic social teachings have a principle called life and dignity of the human person that is mainly violated in this epic poem. Homer sets this epic poem in the city of Ithaca who at the time is under the rule by the fierce warrior‚ Odysseus‚ and his wife‚ Penelope. However‚ Odysseus has been missing for about
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view on what happened to them once they died. They did not have a place where they their souls went to rest in peace. Instead‚ they went to where they were tortured for the rest of their immortal lives. This is shown in both epics‚ The Odyssey by Homer and The Aeneid by Virgil. In the Odyssey Odysseus into the underworld and you get his count on the awfulness of Hades‚ and too Aeneas goes to the underworld and you see the different parts and find out the meaning of each section. Both texts have similarities
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James Hutchinson Ms. Spicer AP Literature 20 August 2010 Homer’s Timeless Truths Is Homer’s The Iliad relevant to today’s society? Is this work a timeless parable depicting universal human truths transcending time and context or merely a superbly-crafted epic poem to be studied and admired for its stylistic brilliance? Has the text endured simply because of Homer’s dramatic verse or because of the timeless human truths it conveys? Was it written to persuade readers to question the moral implications
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character Odysseus fights in the Trojan War for 10 years. Odysseus has to go through many difficult situations‚ to find his way back home and when he does‚ he has to fight off the suitors that took over his home while he was away. This poem was written by Homer and translated by Robert Fitzgerald and a different version by Samuel Butler. This poem gives many life lessons that happen over time and shows how things have changed. After Odysseus fought in the Trojan war for 10 years he started home and had to
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Xenia‚ is an old Greek concept that encompasses generosity to those who are far from home. Xenia is present throughout The Odyssey‚ as Ody travels to many places and meets many people that have different levels of hospitality towards guests. Ody receives help and presents from many of the different kings‚ but also is treated very rudely by many of monsters. In Book 9 of The Odyssey‚ Ody travels to the Island of Cyclops’s and finds himself in a cave filled with cheese and milk. Soon after he and
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“The Odyssey” ‚ by Homer is an epic poem telling the journey of Odysseus on his way back home to Ithaca. Homer wrote the Odyssey to show how heroic Odysseus is and how he served as a model for all his people. His message to the people was that it takes more than just strength to be a hero. All heroes have different qualities that define them and Odysseus had the traits of a H omeric leader with courage‚ nobility‚ strength‚ and confidence‚ but his sharp intellect was the most distinguishable trait
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they were over run by the Mycenaean’s which was an important place of the time. They ruled for 500 more years. THE TROJAN LEGENDS Homer is the first and greatest writer of all Greek literary form known as the Epic. People referred to his works for information and about this specific form. Homer’s name will always be linked with the Trojan War because Homer wrote about the conflict between the Trojans and the return vogues of the Greek leaders. He is known for telling us the whole story of
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appeared during the Hellenistic period. For example‚ a highly academic style‚ which tells a story through a range of symbolic figures‚ was used in a relief carved by Archelaos of Priene‚ The Apotheosis of Homer (150? BC‚ British Museum‚ London). The relief was dedicated to the Muses or to Homer and shows the poet along with figures representing the World‚ Time‚ Homer’s great epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey‚ and other literary images and ideas. But perhaps the most distinctive Hellenistic style
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