Some of the more famous being stories like Moby Dick‚ To Kill a Mockingbird‚ and the Odyssey. The Odyssey is a tale written by Homer about Odysseus‚ a war hero from the Trojan War. The epic is about Odysseus’s prolonged and arduous ten year journey to get home after the war ends. But the story isn’t just about Odysseus: there are many other characters including his son Telemachus who shows great courage in the face of danger. We see an example of this
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THE ODYSSEY – Notes IX. BOOK 9 A. Odysseus Reveals Identity‚ Tells Phaeacians About Ismarus and Cicones i. Odysseus reluctanty shares his identity with Phaeacians ii. Odysseus then details his adventures‚ starting after his victory at Troy iii. Odysseus and men sail to Ismarus‚ stronghold of Cicones iv. They easily sack the city‚ kill the men‚ enslave the women and plunder v. Odysseus warns men to leave with their riches‚ but they ignore him vi. Cicones
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First Telemachus sails to Pylos and meets Nestor. Nestor tells him that he doesn’t know much about Odysseus but explains Odysseus’s travels and adventures. Telemachus then goes to Sparta and talks to Helen and Menelaus. They tell him many tales of his father and also that he heard the Odysseus is on Kalypso’s island and that he is alive. This is what happens in the first four
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destination. He sails for eighteen days when a storm blows up‚ wrecks his ship‚ and almost kills Odysseus. The storm was caused by Poseidon once he realized that the other gods allowed Odysseus to leave Ogygia. The goddesses‚ Ino and Athena‚ come to Odysseus’s rescue and help him to
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get rid of the suitors‚ while Ulysses‚ although he still has a smart mouth‚ learns from his mistakes and strives to place his family first. O Brother‚ Where Art Thou? adapts Odysseus from The Odyssey to create a character that closely resembles Odysseus’s personality traits and transformation from the beginning to the end of the
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other hand‚ regards his own safety as a valuable asset and is incredulous when Odysseus suggests such a miss-matched encounter. Telemachus shows this when he questions Odysseus’s suggestion to fight; “How can two men do battle with a household in their prime?”(289-290). When Telemachus says this he shows that he does not have Odysseus’s immense courage and
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Temptresses use their feminine charms to reveal Odysseus’s promiscuous acts as well as his hubris. Calypso‚ a temptress in the epic‚ is a nymph who is “imprisoned” on the secluded‚ beautiful island‚ Ogygia. In Book IV‚ Odysseus is washed ashore on Ogygia and is there for seven years‚ continuously being tempted by Calypso. “True enough‚/ Calypso the lustrous goddess tried to hold me back‚/ deep in her arching caverns‚ craving me for a husband”(Homer IX. 33-36). Calypso’s attempts to make Odysseus
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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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odysseus and his men fight their way back home. On the way back Odysseus’s men are turned into swine and he is held captive as a “Slave” and that took up most of their time. In chapter 3 him and his men are stuck on the island of the Cylclopies. ( The Land of The Cyclopies)Odysseus tells his best fighters to come with him they are curious and end up in a cave with the cyclops Polyphemus. Polyphemus keeps them hostage and eats some of Odysseus’s men one by one. After building up courage they drunken the
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illustrates how Odysseus jabbed the olive tree in Polyphemus’s eye. The thought of home‚ and him and his men free made him blind Polyphemus. The term ordinary man relates to making mistakes‚ which was what Odysseus did in book 10. Odysseus’s temptation’s made him make a mistake and cheat on his wife Penelope for Circe. "We two/ shall mingle and make love upon out bed. / So mutual trust may come of play and love."[Book 10 lines 66-68] That quote represents Circe’s proposal
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