According to Dante‚ if people do not end up in either the Inferno or Paradiso‚ they are placed in Mount Purgatory. It is here that past sinners are able to repent‚ in hopes of eventually making it to heaven. The key differentiating factor between hell and Purgatory is that those in Purgatory have actual hope. Notably‚ Dante gives Purgatory the shape of a mountain. Like the Inferno‚ Mount Purgatory has multiple levels‚ depending on the sins people committed in their past life. Additionally‚ the
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disrespectful throughout the story. He did try to convince Odysseus that he was innocent but Odysseus was too smart to believe him. | |Activity 1 – Character Analysis Activity 10 – Biography of Homer Homer is the author of the Illiad and the Odyssey and is considered
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set by Xenia‚ there would be severe penalties dealt by Zeus and also by society (Wikipedia). In The Odyssey‚ Xenia is a theme which is shown repeatedly throughout the book: Nestor and Menelaos take in Telemakhos warmly as a guest and Eumaios plays an excellent host to Odysseus‚ while Odysseus is disguised as a wandering beggar. It is no accident that Xenia is such an important theme in The Odyssey‚ as it helps Homer present which characters he wanted to be “good.” Of course‚ the same can be said
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The Greeks‚ as portrayed by Homer‚ are a very vengeful people. Throughout The Odyssey‚ a theme of vengeance is dominant. These displays of retribution come from different entities for fairly different reasons. So why is revenge such a factor in The Odyssey? Fear and the overwhelming feeling of payback are two answers. Homer gives numerous examples of how certain characters demonstrate their power in a fury of rage. He writes of the payback Zeus gives to those who break the rules‚ of Poseidon’s
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Inferno; the Summary The Inferno starts on the evening of Good Friday in the year 1300. Traveling through dark woods‚ Dante Alighieri has lost his path and now wanders fearfully through the forest. Here he encounters the ghost of Virgil‚ the great Roman poet‚ who has come to guide Dante back to his path‚ to the top of the mountain. Virgil says that their path will take them through Hell and that they will eventually reach Heaven. He leads Dante through the gates of Hell. The Ante-Inferno‚ where
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mythology Well it depending on the story they are in. In the Odyssey “the Cyclops are gigantic‚ insolent‚ and lawless race of shepherds‚ who lived in the south-western part of sicily‚ and devoured human beings.” In later stories they are shown as hard works and as assistant to Hephaestus. Eventually the Cyclops where “expelled from their homes in Thrace‚ and went to Crete and to Lycia.” (next slide) What did the cyclop’s do in the Odyssey? The Cyclops in the Odysseus gets tricked by Odysseus. Michael
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In the story the odyssey‚ odysseus is faced with two challenges one is that he has to go through this really dangerous part of the water or he can take a easier way and lose some men. In the story I think that he has two choices that he has to make have to do with his real life. When the goddess is telling him the ways he can go she gives him a super deadly way to go that nobody ever lives through or he can go an easier way but he might lose some men and his ship. Odysseus asks her how to save his
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Posters‚ such as the one above‚ motivated women to persevere during this difficult time and gave them hope. The theme of perseverance is underlying in both The Odyssey and Romeo and Juliet. Throughout The Odyssey‚ Odysseus and his men persevere through many hardships in order to return home to Ithaca. For example‚ they must face the Cyclops‚ which results in a curse that makes it impossible for Odysseus to return with his men and guarantees
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The Inferno follows the wanderings of the poet Dante Alighieri’s poem‚ the Divine Comedy‚ which chronicles Dante’s journey to God‚ and is made up of the Inferno (Hell)‚ Purgatorio (Purgatory)‚ and Paradiso (Paradise). The Inferno begins when Dante strays off the rightful and straight path of moral truth and gets lost in a dark wood. He gets attack by three beasts that symbolize different sins. Fortunately‚ he then meets the spirit of the Roman epic poet Virgil. Virgil to the rescue! He’s an appropriate
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years before the black guelphs finally won‚ and exiled the white guelphs - including Dante Alighieri. After he was exiled‚ he began to work on his first of three books‚ Inferno. This book was Dante’s take on hell. Although many people take Dante’s book as fact‚ Inferno is nowhere near biblically accurate. In Dante’s Inferno he shows extreme personal bias against his enemies‚ he writes about different sections of hell‚ and he has many variations of punishment‚ some worse and some better than others
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