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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

This paper contrasts and compares how women's rights are depicted in The Bible, 'The Odyssey' by Homer, and The Thousand and One N...

to his position, he represents all the virtues and flaws of a man, in spite of the fact that he is only part human. But it is the...

In 5 pages this paper examines how the 'Faustian Bargain' is depicted in the literary works Faust by Goethe, Don Quixote by Cervan...

was forbidden to her, period. It was not her place to try to reason why; it was her place to obey without question. This is what w...

a conduit between two otherwise strangers. Poetry is as diverse a means of communication as any medium, yet there are vast arrays...

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

In three pages this paper examines the literary relationship between theme and setting in 'The Odyssey' by Homer and 'Circe' by Eu...

see the shades of Penelope or Telemakhos here -- but implores Odysseus to give him a decent burial before his body is ravaged by s...

In five pages this paper examines the Holy Bible's Old and New Testaments, 'The Odyssey' of Homer, and William Shakespeare's Hamle...

In three pges this paper contrasts and compares the characterizations of Penelope in 'The Odyssey' by Homer and Desdemona in Othel...

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

In five page this paper considers Gods and their roles in ancient Greek society and literature in a consideration of a passage fro...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

son of Odysseus, wearing a disguise and instills in him the courage to challenge the suitors of his mother. Additionally Athena pe...

because he is married to another woman and she will not compromise her morals or her principles. However, when she is offered a ch...

in for what she sees as the opposite with is sensibility. Her sister, Marianne, however is filled with emotions and is very much r...