After 10 long and exhausting years of the trojan war everyone who didn’t die just wanted to return home‚ and for Odysseus‚ there’s nothing more he wanted than to go home to his Penelope and his son whom he had to leave as a newborn‚ but after he angered the gods by claiming he didn’t need them the journey back home got complicated and took some wrong turns that took another 10 years to fix‚ but despite ending up in wrong places his mental strength and intelligence gave him the courage to keep going
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ea. Odysseus is trapped on the island Ogygia by the goddess Calypso who wants him to be her husband. b. Hermes is sent to tell Calypso to release Odysseus and she eventually complies. i. Calypso helps Odysseus build a boat and stocks it full of everything he will need. c. Poseidon creates a storm and nearly drowns Odysseus but a goddess gives him a cloak that allows him to swim to a nearby shore. i. Up a stream into nearby woods d. Odysseus wakes up in the woods and sees the princess of the Phaeacians
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Since the birth of prose‚ various literary techniques such as tone‚ imagery‚ similes‚ and foreshadowing have been used by authors to engender specific impressions upon their audience. Like an artist’s pallet of paint‚ authors color their words with vibrancy through the use of these literary tools. In the Greek work the Iliad‚ Homer skillfully utilizes similes and foreshadowing in an innovative way. Rather than approaching them as separate entities‚ he notably combines them by foreshadowing in the
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The first example is the house of Menelaus. Telemachus and Peisistratus come to Lacedaemon. “And so they came to the rolling lands of Lacedaemon‚ deep in the hills‚ and drove up to the palace of the illustrious Menelaus” (The Odyssey). After Telemachus and Peisistratus reached Menelaus’s house‚ one of his servants‚ Eteoneus‚ told Menelaus who had arrived. Once Menelaus had heard this‚ he ordered his servants to unyoke the horses and bring them to the feast. “They led the sweating horses from
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The Odyssey‚ one of the central themes in the epic is the double standard of fidelity in Odysseus’ time. Women who werent faithful were shunned in the society‚ but when Men were unfaithful‚ not much was made of it. The relationship of Penelope and Odysseus gives us a prime example of this as Penelope wards of the suitors‚ refusing to move on from Odysseus where as Odysseus was intimate with other women on numerous occasions on his journey back to his homeland of Ithaca. In books 1 and 2 a main
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The Odyssey – Adaptation Project DUE DATE: Wednesday‚ 2/12/2014 Adaptation is defined as “Rewriting or reworking of a piece for a different medium.” Classic stories and novels are commonly adapted for film and television‚ and while the result can be a stunning new work of art‚ many elements of the original story are changed or lost as a result of the process. You have read the Odyssey and seen one adapted version. Now it’s your turn! Your assignment is as follows: You are going to
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The Odyssey: Father-Son Relationships The Odyssey introduces the theme of father-son relationships to exemplify how influential fathers were at the time. Fathers act as role models to their sons and can determine their actions‚ even while being absent from home for long periods of time. Nestor’s son‚ Pisistratus‚ is a respectful and courteous man. His manners could be attributed to King Nestor’s piety. King Nestor offers sacrifices to the gods‚ as seen at the beginning of book IIV‚ when his people
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many unexpected challenges. For instance when escaping the cyclops the hero “took the wooliest ram… and hung [himself] under his kinky belly” demonstrating his cunning (Homer‚ 1989‚ p. 571). One of Odysseus’ strongest traits was his wits‚ and his odyssey forced him to use that skill. His voyage extracted his assets. In “Courage”‚ a poem about the journey of life‚ courage is compared is compared to a fire. The poet emphasizes that everyone has courage and it starts as a “small coal” (Sexton‚ 1975
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Ancient Greeks society believed in gods and goddesses who live above Mount Olympus and watch over mortals below. The Greeks believed that these gods and goddesses interfered with life below Olympus. This is seen in both Homers poems the Iliad and the Odyssey‚ where the gods interfered throughout the stories. In the Iliad‚ the gods interfered in both side of the war‚ by favoring who they were going to help. When Agamemnon did not return Chryseis‚ her father a Trojan high priest turned to Apollo for help
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For my imitation paper‚ the homeric style elements used are simile‚ imagery‚ delay‚ dialogue‚ and patronymics. The first element I used is simile and according to The Odyssey‚ there’s a quote "and as four yoked stallions spring all together‚ beneath the lash‚ leaping high‚ and then eat up the dusty road on the plain" (Homer‚ 194). A simile that I included in my imitation is "With the song of "tale as old as time‚" Considering that tune is compared to the age of the song‚ Comparing the certainty of
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