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In five pages this paper discusses the societal and immortality quests of epic heroes in Gilgamesh and Homer's 'The Odyssey' in a ...

the long journey is not necessary, but that does not mean that the odyssey as a concept was not necessary years ago. Indeed, in th...

This paper consists of 5 pages and examines how the protagonist attempted to make a living during a 29-year travelling odyssey. T...

The first task at hand in our study is the provision of a historical explanation of existentialism. A concise explanation is prov...

episode. Examining the evolution and fundamental importance of Odysseus life brings one to consider the elements of ethics ...

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

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...

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

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...

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 ...

he will gild her horns as part of the sacrifice (Homer). Such sacrifices were meant as "gifts" to the gods, which were designed to...

reacts to the presence of the men by eating two of them, Odysseus attacks and manages to blind Polyphemus by stabbing him in his e...

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

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...

men encounter comrades who were killed and left unburied, meaning that their spirits are doomed to wander. The first thing that st...

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...

and the goddess shows this with her actions throughout the narrative. Therefore, examination of the Odyssey demonstrates that the ...

he rolls a huge boulder across the opening to the cave. Polyphemus eats two of Odysseuss men and it is clear that he plans to make...

observes a boatman named Charon who is transporting the souls of the dead across the river. There are "hollow groans, and shrieks...

this historical puzzle dating back to the novice citizen investigations to the more scientific and sophisticated Illinois River Va...

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

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...

was time to allow Odysseus to return home. Should he be allowed to go back to Ithaka to be reunited with his wife Penelope and hi...

Ulysses is clearly at the mercy of the gods and goddesses to some extent. He cannot seem to simply go home, but...

reader how "everything well stowed, the wine in jars, and the barley meal, which is the staff of life" which indicates that wine r...

In seven pages this paper discusses the impact of technology upon humankind as considered in H.G. Wells' novels The War of the Wor...

Ithaca and kept him away from his wife Penelope and his son Telemachus. Cast adrift on a ship with only his crewmembers for compa...

Odysseus and Polyphemus (or Cyclops), the protagonist and antagonist in "The Odyssey." Like Odysseus, Todd is banished from his w...

is killed (Virgil, 2009). Paschalis has done a study of some of the semantics in the poem, and suggests that the name "Galaesus"...

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...