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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Hook. Hades was one of the three main Olympus Gods‚ along with Zeus and Poseidon. Although Hades is the God of the Underworld‚ he is also a variety of other Gods. Hades had an extremely remarkable life including his early life‚ how he helped with Hercules’s twelfth labor‚ and the different weapons he used‚ Hades was the son of Cronus and Rhea‚ two of the last Titans. In fear of a prophecy that he would be in turn overthrown by his own son‚ Cronus swallowed each of his children as soon as they were
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Major Gods and Goddess |Greek Name |Roman Name |Function | |Aphroditē |Venus |Goddess of love‚ beauty‚ and desire. She was | | | |married to Hephaestus. Aresis her lover and | |
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time Cafavy hopes Odysseus’ takes on the journey‚ the purpose of the journey is more important than the final destination. On Odysseus’ journey to Ithaka‚ he sees many monsters. In Cavafy’s Ithaka‚ he mentions the “Laistrygonians and Cyclops‚ angry Poseidon‚” and to “not be afraid of them‚” (4-5). The beasts serve more of a mental hurdle to Odysseus than a physical one. However‚ in the epic‚ the Laistrygonians are a strong physical presence to Odysseus‚ as they sunk 11 out of 12 ships in the story;
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Vesta 5. Hera‚ Poseidon‚ Athena‚ Aphrodite‚ Ares‚ Hephaestus 6. Priests and priestesses in the sacred grove interpreted rustling of the oak leaves 7. The breastplate of Zeus was the aegis and had Medusa’s face on it. Zeus’s tree was the oak tree and his bird was the eagle. 8. Hera is the wife and younger sister of Zeus 9. She was often cruel. She got jealous often‚ especially of Zeus’s affairs and would get revenge on whoever it happened to be. 10. Poseidon and Hades. Poseidon ruled the sea
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There are multiple different gods and goddesses in the Odyssey and each use their powers in different ways. Many gods try to help Odysseys get home to Ithaca whilst others try to stop or prolong his journey‚ they were extremely important to the success of the Odyssey. Zeus has the ultimate power throughout the book although he doesn’t appear very often. He is the god of fate and destiny and so he decided what would happen to Odysseus but other gods‚ goddesses and monsters change when it will happen
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These flaws include the fact that he loses his men and the fact that he boasts about himself and commits blasphemy toward Poseidon when he says‚ "I am sure that even great Poseidon will never give you back the eye you lost" (Odyssey‚ Book IX‚ page 185). Nevertheless‚ this does nothing but adds to the idea of Odysseus being the ideal hero in the ancient Greek society. He is a mortal hero‚ a human‚
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Hi my name is Percy Jackson and i’m a demigod. I know u my not believe in greek gods and roman gods but they are real. My dad is Poseidon god greek god of the ocean and horses (roman name: Neptune‚ keep that in mind)so to answer your question i can move the flow of anything with water in it and i can speak to horses.It is not fun. It is like hell. You have to fight monsters and titans and giants. A few years back we just defeated the greek titan Kronos(titan of time‚ king of all titans) in the titan
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Odysseus The Epic Hero! Odysseus is an epic hero because of all the challenging obstacles he had to overcome. He is strong and brave by never giving up‚ but rather determined to fulfill his accomplishments as a young and adventurous man. Odysseus was also very cunning‚ knowing how to create and form the ideal way to sabotage the Trojans. Such a bold hero and great father that seeks to win the 10 year war with the Trojans and succeeds. Although‚ weaknesses lye in every man as a human necessity
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“How the ocean got its waves” by Brooklyn Cosgrove Once there was a goddess named Amphitrite‚she was the goddess of the sea‚ and there was a god named Poseidon‚ he was the god of the sea. They lived in Atlantis ‚deep in the Mediterranean Sea. They lived in a castle made of solid gold and had every creature in the ocean worshiped them. Meanwhile in Oia‚ Santorini‚ Greece there lived twin siblings. A girl named Cecily and a boy named Axel. They lived in a white stucco cottage with a blue domed
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