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Essays 121 - 150
In ten pages this paper contrasts and compares the hero's role in Sophocles' Antigone, Thucydides' The History of the Peloponnesia...
In five pages this paper discusses how the classical hero definition applies to Odysseus in Homer's 'The Odyssey. There are no ot...
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...
father and travels great distances until he comes to Italy where he holds games and celebrations for his fathers death. He is told...
and suicide because life did not work out well enough for a particular character, Anna Karenina. We are also given the strong expe...
not tell Polyphemus his name, rather indicating to the Cyclops that his name is "Nobody." When Polyphemus friends respond to his c...
This research report examines customs, events, and for example meanings of the Phaeacians' games. Homer's Odyssey and Virgil's Aen...
In 5 pages the heroic quest is analyzed within the context of Cervantes' Don Quixote, Dante's 'Inferno' and Homer's 'The Odyssey.'...
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 2 pages this paper examines how in Books IX through XII of 'The Odyssey Odysseus becomes mature enough to embrace his destiny w...
This paper contrasts and compares how women's rights are depicted in The Bible, 'The Odyssey' by Homer, and The Thousand and One N...
A 5 page comparison of the characters in Homer's Odyssey and Iliad. The author contrasts qualities such as heroism and humanism. ...
In five pages this paper considers Odysseus' heroic tale as described in Homer's poetic epic 'The Odyssey.' There are no other so...
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...
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...
the end of the Gita, Arjuna says "The delusion is gone...by your grace I have recovered my wits. Here I stand with no more doubts....
sees the development of his character because this is the focus of the story and his journey. One reads as Odysseus moves through ...
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...
Cimmerians and their cloudy city at our backs, Turning our faces instead toward life, toward home, Defying the goddess of the is...
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 ...
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...
this historical puzzle dating back to the novice citizen investigations to the more scientific and sophisticated Illinois River Va...
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 -- ...
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...
reader how "everything well stowed, the wine in jars, and the barley meal, which is the staff of life" which indicates that wine r...
Ulysses is clearly at the mercy of the gods and goddesses to some extent. He cannot seem to simply go home, but...
(Thorburn 370). This is the custom that plays a prominent role throughout the Telemachy and the Odyssey as a whole. The Telemach...
This essay focuses on the role that hospitality plays in Homer's The Odyssey. Three pages in length, no other sources are cited. ...
and marginalized in both classical and modern literature, one must first understand how the prevailing viewpoint of women as funda...