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Essays 61 - 90
the hero receives the call to adventure, which he initially rejects before crossing the threshold into adventure. Next comes initi...
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...
observes a boatman named Charon who is transporting the souls of the dead across the river. There are "hollow groans, and shrieks...
and 1 Kings 11:3 indicates that the monarch of Israel had "seven hundred princesses and three hundred concubines." There is a gr...
Ulysses is clearly at the mercy of the gods and goddesses to some extent. He cannot seem to simply go home, but...
in the ideal image of a male hero or warrior. In both cultures the people were founded in a patriarchal way of life, seeing man as...
Odysseus and Polyphemus (or Cyclops), the protagonist and antagonist in "The Odyssey." Like Odysseus, Todd is banished from his w...
Ithaca and kept him away from his wife Penelope and his son Telemachus. Cast adrift on a ship with only his crewmembers for compa...
author points out, it would be impossible to spend as much time on each and every event and person mentioned in the Old Testament....
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...
ritual in pagan religions for the purpose of purifying oneself (Barnes 2000). Although the term baptism is not found in the Old ...
he will gild her horns as part of the sacrifice (Homer). Such sacrifices were meant as "gifts" to the gods, which were designed to...
home, as though they own everything. One would perhaps expect Penelope, or Telemachus (the man of the house so to speak), to ins...
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...
This 8 page paper considers whether the Bible is fact or myth, and whether or not it provides an accurate account of real people a...
The ways in which male and female virtue changed in terms of the attitudes of Ancient Greece are examined in 6 pages in a consider...
In a paper consisting of twenty five pages the Old Testament's Book of Daniel is extensively analyzed and presents the argument su...
(p. 81). In other words, this group of scholars believes that Christianity adopted its missionary orientation, in part, because ...
In four pages this paper analyzes how life's renewal and rebirth are symbolically represented by the olive tree in Homer's epic 'T...
far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy" (Homer The Odyssey PG). The Odyssey was written in 800 B.C. and woven in...
In ten pages the Jewish roots of the Christian faith are exposed in a discussion of major contention points that existed, similari...
In eight pages this essay analyzes the Old Testament's Book of Job. There are no other sources listed....
In eight pages Homer's 'The Odyssey' and Sophocles' 'Oedipus Rex' are compared with Poe's 'Ms. Found in a Bottle' and 'The Purloin...
deity, was the "first principle, the very foundation of the divinely willed order of things" (McCarthy 136). However, it is not e...
In five pages Homer's protagonist Odysseus featured in 'The Odyssey' is examined in terms of his heroic personality attributes. F...
This paper examines the themes, development of character, and narrative of 'The Odyssey' in order to determine wither or not the f...
a commonplace story already familiar to his listeners, he could (and did) omit much of the unnecessary backstory (with respect to ...
In five pages this paper examines Homer's 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey' in its portrayal of Homeric warfare in a consideration of ...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares these goddesses in terms of what each represents about femininity and also discuss...
In five pages this paper discusses the societal and immortality quests of epic heroes in Gilgamesh and Homer's 'The Odyssey' in a ...