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Comparative Analysis of 'Aeneid' by Virgil and 'The Odyssey' by Homer

In six pages this paper compares these two classical works in terms of plot, characterization, setting, thematic portrayals of war...

Comparative Analysis of 'The Odyssey' by Homer and 'The Aeneid' by Virgil

In two pages this paper contrasts and compares the depictions of women and the journeys undertaken by Aeneas and Odysseus in these...

Comparative Analysis of 'Julius Caesar' by William Shakespeare and 'The Odyssey' by Homer

In five pages this research paper contrasts and compares Shakespeare's tragedy with the epic by Homer. Five sources are cited in ...

Christianity in Beowulf

has received a considerable amount of attention. Eighteenth century critics argued in favor of viewing the poem as fundamentally p...

Gender in Beowulf

readers know that despite her monstrousness, Grendels mother is considered to be human (Porter). When Grendel enters the mead-ha...

A Comparison of the Song of Roland and Beowulf

The writer compares and analyzes the Song of Roland and Beowulf, two epic poems. The main focus of the paper is the death of the r...

Rap and the Rap Culture

The writer discusses the connection between the Old English epic poem Beowulf and today's rap culture. The writer argues that alth...

Lines 2860-2879 of Beowulf

lays dead. No individual has truly come to help him save for one youth, Wiglaf. In these particular lines we note the following: "...

A Gilgamesh Analysis

a feast of rejoicing, as well as to keep himself clean and well groomed; he is to cherish his children and his wife (Radcliffe PG)...

Epic 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' and the Use of Symbolism

of balance. The Knight carries the potential for both peace and war. They are intimately bound to one another, it should be said, ...

Classical Literature and Common Theme of Perseverance in Overcoming Obstacles

fire, his roar is the roar/of the floodwater; he breathes and there is death (lines 128-129). Gilgamesh perseveres despite the ad...

Epic Works of Homer

that allows the poem to celebrate or immortalize its national culture (Epic Poetry). The distinguishing characteristics of Homers...

Tolstoy, Virgil, and Homer on Happiness and Erotic Love

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...

Contrasting Views of Homer's Odysseus

sees the development of his character because this is the focus of the story and his journey. One reads as Odysseus moves through ...

Extended Similes of Violence in “The Odyssey”

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...

Emulating Homer

Cimmerians and their cloudy city at our backs, Turning our faces instead toward life, toward home, Defying the goddess of the is...

The Odyssey and The Alchemist: Free Will, Determinism, and the Journeys

not something he will believe as he has already made a choice to be a shepherd and not a priest which is what was determined for h...

Athena and Juno in Homer and Virgil

that Aegisthuss death is certainly deserved, "But my heart breaks for Odysseus, / that seasoned veteran cursed by fate so long -- ...

Impressions from the Readings

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...

Visions and Dialogues of the Dead in Works by Virgil, Plato, and Homer

In six pages this paper examines 'The Aeneid' in terms of the dialogue with the dead featured by Virgil and its difference with 'T...

Comparing the Wisdom of Homer's Odysseus and Penelope

In six pages this paper assesses the spouses featured in 'The Odyssey' by Homer in order to determine which displays the most cons...

Depiction of Women in 'The Odyssey' by Homer and Hippolytus by Euripides

This paper contrasts and compares the depiction of Phaedra by Euripides in Hippolytus and Penelope by Homer in 'The Odyssey' in fi...

'Omeros' by Derek Walcott and the Poet's Uses of Character and Landscape

In 7 pages this paper discusses the similarities between 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey' of Homer and Derek Walcott's 'Omeros' in a...

Literature and Free Will v. Fate

In 5 pages this paper examines this thematic conflict as it is represented in A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, Macbeth by William S...

Classical Literature and Women

In eight pages the idealization of women and the restrictions placed upon them as reflected in Aristophanes' Lysistrata, Antigone ...

Homer's World, Similarities and Difference with Present Day

This essay pertains to "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey" by Homer, the ancient Greek poet and the worldview and cultural values that a...

Hospitality in the Telemachy

(Thorburn 370). This is the custom that plays a prominent role throughout the Telemachy and the Odyssey as a whole. The Telemach...

After the Odyssey

The writer presents a creative essay written in iambic pentameter, describing the journey Teiresias commanded Odysseus to make aft...

Homer's Penelope and Sophocles' Antigone

In seven pages this paper compares the female protagonists featured in 'The Odyssey' by Homer and Antigone by Sophocles in a cons...

Violence and How It is Glorified in 'The Iliad' by Homer

In eight pages this paper discusses the epic's glorification of violence in an analysis that also considers gender roles, human na...