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the examples of the main characters, a certain amount of wit and common intelligence is necessary to possess as an essential work ...

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

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

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...

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...

occurs near the end of the conflict. These two warriors fight over who has the greater claim to a captive woman who is also the d...

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

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...

all of the kingdoms riches and power for themselves. The problem is Odysseuss only son, who is the natural successor to the throne...

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...

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

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...

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...

as Homer based his story on fiction which would occur in the context of history and mythology. While the tale has been critically ...

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

journeys, "After leaving his ruined home in a galaxy far, far away, Luke Skywalker began a journey taken by countless other heroes...

her part. What she didnt know was that Zeus was responsible for thwarting her attempts at consummating her relationship with Odys...

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...

Person-centered, transactional analysis, and Gestalt therapies are humanistic therapies. Among other things, this means that they ...

This essay pertains to The Cave by Jose Saramago and presents the interpretation that the author stresses the similarities between...

This essay focuses on the role that hospitality plays in Homer's The Odyssey. Three pages in length, no other sources are cited. ...

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...

In sage debates...To save the state" (Homer Book I). The reader begins to see that Telemachus is not wise enough to be prepared fo...

without specifically worrying about success or failure, "they cannot be stained by action" (Harrison, 1996). Hearing this, Arjuna ...

/ so long as we men of Achaea soldiered on at Troy. / But once wed sacked King Priams craggy city, / boarded ship, and a god dispe...