In The Odyssey‚ Homer gives Odysseus qualities of cleverness and skill while he overcomes his obstacles. Odysseus and his men face these challenges when Poseidon’s son‚ Polyphemus‚ curses Odysseus and his men when Odysseus tells Polyphemus who blinded him. Polyphemus then prays to Poseidon who asks for chaos on Odysseus’ voyage home‚ and he would rather have him dead than return home hurt. Because of this‚ Odysseus faces many decisive tasks ahead of his embarkment back home. When he lands at the
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he would come out and attack Troy. Another way to prove this is when Odysseus and his crew escaped Polyphemus’s cave. To escape the cave first Odysseus had got Polyphemus drunk then with the olive tree he had made a pointy end‚ after that two of his crew members had got up on a rock and poked his eye‚ so he would go blind‚ then Polyphemus got up and started yelling and screaming but while he was doing that he had also moved the rock so now Odysseus and his crew members can escape. The final trait
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Odysseus is faced with the strong and formidable opponent‚ the giant‚ Polyphemus. Odysseus is well aware he cannot win against the giant by using brute force‚ as he is largely outmatched physically. Odysseus and his men are stuck in quite the predicament because if they kill the giant‚ they will forever be
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What was the historical cause of the Trojan War (probably)‚ and what was the mythological cause? Historical: Troy is a city that guards the entrance to the Black Sea‚ and so it’s likely that they were harassing the Greeks’ trade routes. Mythical: Paris stole Helen from king Menelaos of Sparta. Menelaos was brother of Agamemnon of Mycenae. One of the horrific acts committed in the "House of Atreus" (not the literal house‚ but the family that includes Atreus) was that he did what to Thyestes’
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story( 1.5 pts): [note: by “context‚” I mean for you to tell me at what point in the plot we find this passage and‚ if pertinent‚ who says it and why; about 50 words] This passage appears after Odysseus and his men have successfully stabbed the Polyphemus in the eye and escaped his cave. After fleeing and boarding the ship‚ the chosen passage appears as Odysseus taunts the Cyclops. Significance of the passage (6 pts): The quote I have chosen to discuss reflects a negative aspect of Odysseus
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Father-Son Relationships in The Odyssey "Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich‚ for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant." This quote‚ stated by Epictetus‚ is an ideal depiction of the importance of father-son relationships in Homer’s ancient Greek epic‚ The Odyssey. The protagonist of The Odyssey‚ Odysseus‚ fights among the other Greek heroes at Troy and struggles to return to his kingdom in Ithaca where his loyal wife‚ Penelope‚ and his
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Nearly every story in Greek mythology revolves around a character with a certain outstanding attribute‚ be it strength‚ intellect‚ or even musical talent. Heroes such as this might spend their lives questing for kleos‚ or the myth might simply be a tale in which the hero was trying to accomplish a certain task‚ such as returning home or rescuing a lover from Hades. In every case‚ these heroic tales would always end with tragedy; the hero would be killed by a jealous lover‚ go mad‚ or have a loved
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When his crew leaves the island of Polyphemus‚ he could not resist taunting the cyclops and revealing his name to be Odysseus. “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!”(Book IX Odyssey)He is then cursed by Polyphemus and later receives the wrath of Poseidon. Odysseus also has too much pride of his crew
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cursed by the god Poseidon because he foolishly decided to boast to Poseidon’s son Polyphemus. Polyphemus has Odysseus and his men trapped and Odysseus outsmarts him by fooling him into thinking his name was Nohbdy "My name is Nohbdy: mother‚ father‚ and friends all call me Nohbdy" (ll. 274-275 book9). Odysseus then stabs the Cyclops in the eye thus fooling the posterity of gods into yelling "Nohbdy has hurt me." Polyphemus then prays to his father to make sure that Odysseus never reaches his home of
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hero is Mulan and how she went into the army to help her dad even though it was punishable by death to impersonate a soldier. True heroes also are determined on a task and they never give up. One example is Odysseus when he encounters the cyclops‚ Polyphemus. Odysseus keeps on trying to come up with
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