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lay there / lifted up his muzzle, pricked his ears..." (17.317-318). We read that the dog is lying on a dung heap; hes full of tic...

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...

to go home. This particular point in the story is approximately halfway through such dangers and journeys and as such it is halfwa...

sees the development of his character because this is the focus of the story and his journey. One reads as Odysseus moves through ...

The son Of crafty Saturn changed the snake to stone... But Calchas thus Instantly spake... All-foreseeing Jupiter Hath sent this ...

In five pages this paper discusses the characteristics of the ideal leader in a consideration of how Odysseus and Moses embody the...

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...

home, his palace, his wife, his son, his people. Ogygia Ulysses is trapped on Calypsos island for many years. If it werent for...

Ithaca and kept him away from his wife Penelope and his son Telemachus. Cast adrift on a ship with only his crewmembers for compa...

fathers death, she sets to the task of making a funeral shroud. Every day she spends hours working on it, then when night comes, s...

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

on which he has been marooned for twenty years, it would appear as if his ship would have nothing but smooth sailing back to Ithac...

and craft are clear throughout the narrative, but such episodes as her deceiving of the suitors are not considered in the same lig...

father. So, by the end of the story what he has done has given him experience and wisdom to deal with a future as a leader. Tel...

note his passion for such in the following lines when Hamlet responds to the facts presented by the ghost: "Haste me to knowt, tha...

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

in this work goes into the Great Families of Mythology and provides information on The House of Atreus, The Royal House of Thebes,...

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...

He gains allies and waits for the right opportunity to enact justice. This also allows Homer to thoroughly document the wrongs per...

journey home to his wife Penelope and son Telemakhos in Ithaka. The gods and goddesses also shape the poem structurally, and are ...

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...

though they were in a war. Their life is perhaps not threatened, but they must struggle to become more honorable and noble as they...

divine perfection, but in more human terms as a willingness to learn from ones mistakes. Human beings are not gods; they are flaw...

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

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at heroism. Odysseus is put forth as an example of both modern and classical ideals of ...

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...

himself to the public, a duality of moral reasoning that influences his self-serving ways. Of the many reasons attributed to why ...

is killed (Virgil, 2009). Paschalis has done a study of some of the semantics in the poem, and suggests that the name "Galaesus"...

In five pages this paper discusses the origins of Jesus Christ in myth in a comparative analysis of possible literary precursors H...

In five pages this paper examines how the survival instincts Odysseus relied upon during his journey home were reinforced by his s...