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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...

Epic Literature and Heroes

In five pages the epic heroes that are featured in epic literary works are discussed in a consideration of 'The Song of Roland,' '...

Ancient Greek Literature Compared with the Writings of Edgar Allan Poe

In eight pages Homer's 'The Odyssey' and Sophocles' 'Oedipus Rex' are compared with Poe's 'Ms. Found in a Bottle' and 'The Purloin...

Morality in 'The Inferno,' The Aeneid, and the Book of Matthew

In five pages this paper compares how morality is a common thematic threads in these classical literary works. Four sources are c...

Homer's 'The Odyssey' and Substance Abuse

In five pages this paper examines jimson weed indulgence and lotus eating in this consideration of how substance abuse is represen...

Virgil's The Aeneid, Free Will, and Fate

In a paper consisting of five pages this paper examines the concepts of fate and free will within the context of Virgil's epic and...

Overview of Homeric Warfare

In five pages this paper examines Homer's 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey' in its portrayal of Homeric warfare in a consideration of ...

Homer's 'Odyssey' and Its Stories

In five pages this paper examines the stories featured throughout 'The Odyssey' in a consideration of the repetition of Agamemnon'...

Fact and Fiction in Homer's 'The Odyssey'

of Homers great work are a slew of characters. One of those is Odysseus, an unlikely hero. Odysseus is in some ways an antihero...

Goddesses Calypso and Circe in Homer's 'The Odyssey'

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares these goddesses in terms of what each represents about femininity and also discuss...

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...

Hero's Personality of Odysseus

In five pages Homer's protagonist Odysseus featured in 'The Odyssey' is examined in terms of his heroic personality attributes. F...

Coen's Film Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? and Homer's 'The Odyssey'

This paper examines the themes, development of character, and narrative of 'The Odyssey' in order to determine wither or not the f...

Odysseus' Maturation and the Epic 'The Odyssey' by Homer

In five pages this paper discusses the maturation Odysseus underwent throughout the course of 'The Odyssey.' Three sources are ci...

'The Odyssey' by Homer and the Greek Goddess Athena

In five pages this paper discusses the wise goddess who was Odysseus's mentor in 'The Odyssey.' Five sources are cited in the bib...

Slave Culture Euro American and African Style

This paper consisting of five pages discusses by way of Nathan Irvin Huggins' 'Black Odyssey' how the combination of African and E...

Literature, Identity and Character Revelations

And, yet, it has been many years. She wars with her reason which offers her the explanation that she just wants this stranger to b...

Ancient Greece and Roles for Women as Portrayed by Homer

and also provided insight into the character when she brazenly broke with firmly held tradition. For example, in Homers Iliad and ...

The Aeneid by Virgil and Views of the Greeks by the Trojans

he is told that he must marry a girl named Lavinia so that Trojan and Latin blood will be mixed. A war soon breaks out after Jun...

'The Odyssey' by Homer and Fate

beginning, feels like he is in a position of complete helplessness. His father has been gone nearly 20 years and he is forced to d...

'Goodness' of Odysseus

a good person or a bad person, only that he is religious. In another section, much further along in the story, we see Odysseus t...

Epic Works of Homer

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

Homer and the Old Testament

holds the Greeks captive in his cave, into allowing them to escape by first blinding his one eye while he sleeps. However, Odysseu...

Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri and Portrayal of Women

woman who is generous and selfless: "So much more dear and pleasing is to God/ My little widow, whom so much I loved,/ As in good ...

The Significance of Feasting in Homer's Odyssey

that whatever the customs of good behavior, these people are not observing them. In light of this we would assume that the people ...

Comparing Marital Attitudes by the Hebrews and Ancient Greeks

allowing them to be less complex than they often are in real life. In the Old Testament in the bible, they tend to be rather simpl...

Classical Literature and the Hero

In ten pages this paper contrasts and compares the hero's role in Sophocles' Antigone, Thucydides' The History of the Peloponnesia...

Women in Homer's 'The Iliad' and Virgil's 'The Aeneid'

although portrayed by many in a sympathetic light Homer see her as a wicked woman who brings shame on herself and her society thro...

Rebekah and Nausicaa in the Bible and Homer's 'The Odyssey'

This paper examines the power by women in ancient Hebrew and Greek societies as represented by Rebekah in the Old Testament and Na...

Audience and Works by Dante Alighieri and Homer

In five pages this essay considers the audience and poet relationship as represented in 'The Divine Comedy' by Dante and 'The Odys...