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to go home. This particular point in the story is approximately halfway through such dangers and journeys and as such it is halfwa...
how all true tragic heroes apply the same principle: by purging his sins in exchange for forgiveness from nature and the gods. He...
In three pages this paper emphasizes Aeneas' and Odysseus' differences as reflected in the works by Virgil and Homer. There is no...
This paper consists of five pages and examines how Homer's perspectives on the afterlife as revealed in 'The Odyssey' compare with...
The writer presents a creative essay written in iambic pentameter, describing the journey Teiresias commanded Odysseus to make aft...
though they were in a war. Their life is perhaps not threatened, but they must struggle to become more honorable and noble as they...
In three pages these characters featured in Homer's epic poem are contrasted and compared in terms of their similarities and diffe...
debate in terms of wanting a peaceful and inner spiritual life and letting go of his past indiscretions (St. Augustine, Bishop of ...
could live. It was on the broad shoulders of this classical hero upon which the security of society rested. While the hero walke...
a commonplace story already familiar to his listeners, he could (and did) omit much of the unnecessary backstory (with respect to ...
as Homer based his story on fiction which would occur in the context of history and mythology. While the tale has been critically ...
Odysseus and Polyphemus (or Cyclops), the protagonist and antagonist in "The Odyssey." Like Odysseus, Todd is banished from his w...
only by the military might of his chief Trojan rival Hector. Achilles courage was unwavering perhaps due in part to his connectio...
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 three pages Homer's Penelope is compared with William Shakespeare's Desdemona in terms of Desdemona's simplicity and naivete in...
In five pages this paper compares and contrasts Virgil's protagonist Aeneas from 'The Aeneid' with Homer's protagonist Odyssey in ...
Homer's and Virgil's works are compared and contrasted. This research report suggests that various trends for each of these works....
A 5 page comparison of the characters in Homer's Odyssey and Iliad. The author contrasts qualities such as heroism and humanism. ...
a mortal man, and live with him in open matrimony" (Book V). She illustrates how she found him after all alone and shipwrecked and...
In ten pages this paper contrasts and compares the hero's role in Sophocles' Antigone, Thucydides' The History of the Peloponnesia...
peers by acclamation rather than divine right. The thane is spoke of as a "giver of treasure in gladness" (Beowulf 46). In other w...
not tell Polyphemus his name, rather indicating to the Cyclops that his name is "Nobody." When Polyphemus friends respond to his c...
This 5 page paper compares three tragedies and their protagonists: Oedipus from Oedipus Rex, Macbeth from Macbeth and Odysseus fro...
In five pages this paper discusses the wise goddess who was Odysseus's mentor in 'The Odyssey.' Five sources are cited in the bib...
hinting, not very subtly, that if Odysseus is dead it will be up to Telemachus to revenge him. But even more importantly and in a ...
suitors, who grossly outnumber him. Odysseus himself vows that he will fight "while Ive got arrows to defend me", committed to the...
to Ithaca and resume his role as leader of his home, husband and father. Book 13 relates the final meetings of Odysseus...
fact, contended that: "even under the best arrangements a considerable margin of irresponsible conduct of...
reader how "everything well stowed, the wine in jars, and the barley meal, which is the staff of life" which indicates that wine r...
An eight page research paper considering the literary concept of the hero's journey in this classic science fiction film by direct...