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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 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 six pages this paper discusses how the values of the societies of ancient Greece and Rome are reflected in such works of litera...

In five pages this paper compares Euripides' character of Medea with the character of Penelope in Homer's 'The Odyssey.' There a...

This paper consists of five pages and examines how Homer's perspectives on the afterlife as revealed in 'The Odyssey' compare with...

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...

In five pages this paper discusses how the classical hero definition applies to Odysseus in Homer's 'The Odyssey. There are no ot...

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...

A 5 page comparison of the characters in Homer's Odyssey and Iliad. The author contrasts qualities such as heroism and humanism. ...

This research report examines customs, events, and for example meanings of the Phaeacians' games. Homer's Odyssey and Virgil's Aen...

In five pages this paper considers Odysseus' heroic tale as described in Homer's poetic epic 'The Odyssey.' There are no other so...

A 5 page essay comparing Odysseus from Homer's The Odyssey with Kevin Spacey's character Verbal Kint. There are many parallels in ...

Calypsos island and has been since the war ended. Athena begins her guidance by getting agreement from the gods (Homer 1.26-27). ...

does provoke Didos suicide one has to question to what extent he would embrace the label of hero. At the same time, besides the in...

spiritual awakening. CHARACTERISTICS OF AN EPIC POEM: Epic poems all share similar characteristics which define them as such. Fo...

If we look to biology the definition of masculine is related to that of male. The male animal has testicles as opposed to ovaries...

and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy. Many cities did he visit, and many were the nations with whose manners and c...

And, yet, it has been many years. She wars with her reason which offers her the explanation that she just wants this stranger to b...

beginning, feels like he is in a position of complete helplessness. His father has been gone nearly 20 years and he is forced to d...

a good person or a bad person, only that he is religious. In another section, much further along in the story, we see Odysseus t...

debate in terms of wanting a peaceful and inner spiritual life and letting go of his past indiscretions (St. Augustine, Bishop of ...

traits he possesses that is less than admirable, one thing is clear. He exhibits loyalty and trustworthiness. He respects the gods...

holds the Greeks captive in his cave, into allowing them to escape by first blinding his one eye while he sleeps. However, Odysseu...

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...

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 ...

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...