Essays 61 - 90
In nine pages this paper examines how metaphysics is represented in Arthur C. Clarke's science fiction novels such as Rendezvous w...
In six pages this paper discusses how the values of the societies of ancient Greece and Rome are reflected in such works of litera...
In five pages this paper compares Euripides' character of Medea with the character of Penelope in Homer's 'The Odyssey.' There a...
In five page this paper considers Gods and their roles in ancient Greek society and literature in a consideration of a passage fro...
In six pages this paper discusses the author's creation of the 'Other' soul as a way of expressing Creole political issues and how...
home, his palace, his wife, his son, his people. Ogygia Ulysses is trapped on Calypsos island for many years. If it werent for...
slave, and ironically enough, he is enslaved by the prophesy. "People of Thebes, my countrymen, look on Oedipus. He solved the fam...
Telemachus taking his first step towards responsibility and manhood. "Telemachus calls an assembly of the men of Ithaca. It is the...
and speaking Homer" discusses the different translations and interpretations of the Homer classic "The Odyssey". Using Robert Fagl...
also notes that even when she met with her husband near the end she still did not run into his arms, remaining cautious and loyal ...
Cimmerians and their cloudy city at our backs, Turning our faces instead toward life, toward home, Defying the goddess of the is...
rested for two days, then sailed on again, but where blown off course once more by the North Wind (Homer). They ended up in the la...
among all the Gods have renown for wit (metis) and tricks" (The Museum of the Goddess Athena). As one can see, Athena does not lov...
In five pages and 2 parts Homer's 'The Iliad' is examines in terms of Patroklos' leadership abilities with a contrast and comparis...
In three pages this paper examines the literary relationship between theme and setting in 'The Odyssey' by Homer and 'Circe' by Eu...
In five pages this paper examines the Holy Bible's Old and New Testaments, 'The Odyssey' of Homer, and William Shakespeare's Hamle...
and marginalized in both classical and modern literature, one must first understand how the prevailing viewpoint of women as funda...
having given his word, feels that he has no choice but to keep it, even though he fears, rightly, that the boy will end in disaste...
observes a boatman named Charon who is transporting the souls of the dead across the river. There are "hollow groans, and shrieks...
is important for it illustrates one of the reasons why the hero is determined to go back. Because she is honorable and admirable t...
this historical puzzle dating back to the novice citizen investigations to the more scientific and sophisticated Illinois River Va...
in the ideal image of a male hero or warrior. In both cultures the people were founded in a patriarchal way of life, seeing man as...
his disposal beyond his huge physical size. It would seem no human could be safe against this creature that could easily pierce o...
Odysseus and Polyphemus (or Cyclops), the protagonist and antagonist in "The Odyssey." Like Odysseus, Todd is banished from his w...
Ithaca and kept him away from his wife Penelope and his son Telemachus. Cast adrift on a ship with only his crewmembers for compa...
men encounter comrades who were killed and left unburied, meaning that their spirits are doomed to wander. The first thing that st...
lay there / lifted up his muzzle, pricked his ears..." (17.317-318). We read that the dog is lying on a dung heap; hes full of tic...
home, as though they own everything. One would perhaps expect Penelope, or Telemachus (the man of the house so to speak), to ins...
story of Odysseus sets him up as a noble man, regardless of what someone may know about Greek codes of conduct. He was a noble man...
Telemachus says: "But come, stay longer, keen as you are to sail, / so you can bathe and rest and lift your spirits, / then go bac...