Essays 61 - 90
Ithaca and kept him away from his wife Penelope and his son Telemachus. Cast adrift on a ship with only his crewmembers for compa...
in the cave by night, it was she, not he, that would have it so" (Homer V). In this we get the impression that while Ulysses may h...
father and travels great distances until he comes to Italy where he holds games and celebrations for his fathers death. He is told...
and suicide because life did not work out well enough for a particular character, Anna Karenina. We are also given the strong expe...
observes a boatman named Charon who is transporting the souls of the dead across the river. There are "hollow groans, and shrieks...
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...
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...
Introduction The ancient stories of Gilgamesh and Ulysses in Homers Odyssey are classic tales that allow the reader to glimpse wh...
is killed (Virgil, 2009). Paschalis has done a study of some of the semantics in the poem, and suggests that the name "Galaesus"...
be the tradition that developed in Greece and has been handed down in the West, as opposed to works that come from the East. The W...
is clear that each of them has some wish in his mind that he cant articulate; instead, like an oracle, he half-grasps what he want...
and marginalized in both classical and modern literature, one must first understand how the prevailing viewpoint of women as funda...
In six pages this paper discusses the author's creation of the 'Other' soul as a way of expressing Creole political issues and how...
men encounter comrades who were killed and left unburied, meaning that their spirits are doomed to wander. The first thing that st...
IN three pages this paper discusses how Homer depicted women in the epic 'The Odyssey' with Penelope being the primary focus of an...
In six pages this paper contrasts and compares how women were oppressed by law and society in the Old Testament and in Homer's epi...
In four pages the significance of the hospitality theme in 'The Odyssey' is discussed in examples of King Alkinoos', Melenaus', an...
In five pages this paper presents a thematic analysis of how sacrifice is portrayed in 'The Odyssey.' There are 2 sources cited i...
In six pages this paper compares Homer's concept of justice with contemporary perspectives as it relates to 'The Odyssey.' There ...
In seven pages this paper compares the female protagonists featured in 'The Odyssey' by Homer and Antigone by Sophocles in a cons...
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 nine pages this paper examines how metaphysics is represented in Arthur C. Clarke's science fiction novels such as Rendezvous w...
This paper consists of five pages and examines how Homer's perspectives on the afterlife as revealed in 'The Odyssey' compare with...
In two pages this paper discusses the heroines of The Thousand and One Nights and 'The Odyssey' in a consideration of how they att...
In five pages this paper examines how love and relationships are depicted in such ancient Greek literary works as Lysistrata, Anti...
In seven pages this paper discusses past and present myths and violence with examples provided from ancient works The Aeneid, The ...
In three pges this paper contrasts and compares the characterizations of Penelope in 'The Odyssey' by Homer and Desdemona in Othel...