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the strongest women in the piece are the goddess Pallas Athena and Penelope, Odysseuss wife. In addition, although her part was sm...
Odysseus was renowned for both his brain and his brawn. He was also had bravery, and competence at his skills. Odysseus was an a...
and his courage will constantly be tested. Without going into great detail, and there is a large amount of it in this classic, we ...
return home. They are in morning, for they have lost a son. They pray to the gods for his return, but feel that he is dead. They e...
can defeat death too. His first leg of the journey involves descending into a tunnel-like cave composed of nine terrifying leagu...
An eight page research paper considering the literary concept of the hero's journey in this classic science fiction film by direct...
his household. The suitors have taken it upon themselves to essentially use Odysseus home as though it was their own, killing live...
In five pages this paper compares and contrasts Virgil's protagonist Aeneas from 'The Aeneid' with Homer's protagonist Odyssey in ...
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 ten pages this paper contrasts and compares the hero's role in Sophocles' Antigone, Thucydides' The History of the Peloponnesia...
This paper examines the power by women in ancient Hebrew and Greek societies as represented by Rebekah in the Old Testament and Na...
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...
In five pages this paper examines the Holy Bible's Old and New Testaments, 'The Odyssey' of Homer, and William Shakespeare's Hamle...
A 5 page comparison of the characters in Homer's Odyssey and Iliad. The author contrasts qualities such as heroism and humanism. ...
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 five pages this paper considers Odysseus' heroic tale as described in Homer's poetic epic 'The Odyssey.' There are no other so...
In two pages this paper discusses the heroines of The Thousand and One Nights and 'The Odyssey' in a consideration of how they att...
A 5 page essay comparing Odysseus from Homer's The Odyssey with Kevin Spacey's character Verbal Kint. There are many parallels in ...
In three pges this paper contrasts and compares the characterizations of Penelope in 'The Odyssey' by Homer and Desdemona in Othel...
In five page this paper considers Gods and their roles in ancient Greek society and literature in a consideration of a passage fro...
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...
IN three pages this paper discusses how Homer depicted women in the epic 'The Odyssey' with Penelope being the primary focus of an...
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...
She is disgusted by the fact that she must respond to the blackmailer, but also proud that she has defended her husband and her li...
In seven pages this paper discusses past and present myths and violence with examples provided from ancient works The Aeneid, The ...
In nine pages this paper examines how metaphysics is represented in Arthur C. Clarke's science fiction novels such as Rendezvous w...
In six pages this paper discusses how the values of the societies of ancient Greece and Rome are reflected in such works of litera...