that could be admired by their readers and compared to as a god. The earliest stories of Odysseus, Aeneas, and Antigone are not viewed as flawless heroes in the modern world but they all contained some of these primary character traits. In Homer’s Odyssey, Vergil’s Aeneid, and Sophocles’ Antigone, each major character can be described as a hero, although, each contains similar and different character traits that fall under the scope of heroism. To begin with these three heroes embody bravery and
The Odyssey is an epic poem by Homer. It is a story of the journey of Odysseus coming back to his wife and son in Ithaca after being away from them for 20 years. The ancient Greeks valued strength, bravery, wit, great stories and beauty. So this tale is centred on a male who holds all of those traits. This epic tale has been an inspiration for many literary creations including Margaret Atwood’s Penelopiad. Margaret Atwood’s Penelopiad is a feminist approach from the point of view of Odysseus’ wife
In The Odyssey, Odysseus embarks on a prolonged journey home in which he endures many trials that exhibit traits the Greeks revere. Meanwhile, at home his wife Penelope resists suitors who plunder her resources and Odysseus’s wealth. This epic exemplifies qualities and characteristics, such as bravery, hospitality and cleverness, embodied by Odysseus in an environment where the Olympian gods and goddesses are intertwined in Greek life. When the Greeks value a quality in a person, they hold that person
In Books Thirteen through Fifteen of Homer’s The Odyssey, disguises are employed in an effort to lessen the perceived grandeur of a character, unlike how disguises were previously utilized to glorify a character. Before Odysseus landed on his native island of Ithaca, Athena created disguises for her subjects in an effort to improve their demeanor and thus leave others wonder-struck so her subjects can influence others. For example, Athena “[…] lavished a marvelous splendor on [Telemachus]” (Homer
Odysseus was the son of Laertes and Anticleia, the daughter of Autolycus and Parnassus. However, many people later believed that he was the son of Sisyphus, the king of Ephyra which is now known as Corinth. This was due to the fact that Anticleia was enticed by Sisyphus a little before she married: “But just before her marriage to Laertes, Anticleia had been seduced by Sisyphus, the king of Corinth. Some Greeks believed that Sisyphus was Ulysses’s father” (Shelmerdine). Not much is known about Odysseus’s
themselves. “The Odyssey” is a superior work of art to the film O! Brother, Where Art Thou? because Odysseus is the worthier epic hero and the film loses the major theme of hospitality that is displayed throughout the poem. “The Odyssey” is a poem composed by the legendary author Homer, one of the central works of Greek Literature. The poem follows
Homer’s Odyssey and Sophocles’ Electra both feature characters on a journey for justice. Odysseus questing for a return to his long-separated family and Electra working towards bringing her mother to task for the past murder of her father. United by a quest towards a goal, both characters converge and diverge at specific points. Odysseus and Electra are in agreement on motivational value and specific strategy, but they present vastly different approaches to the notion of revenge and the role of the
The Penelopiad tells its story in a different time period from the Odyssey as it comes from Penelope looking backward through centuries from today back to the classical Greek period. I think Atwood’s intention is to highlight how attitudes towards women have changed over the centuries. She uses the pyschology of sexual abuse to explain the maid’s behaviour. “ if our owners or the sons of our owners or a visiting nobleman or the sons of a visiting nobleman wanted to sleep with us, we could not refuse
down” Odysseus is a hero that people think of as a god be in reality he is a mortal, but is a slave to the god; Zeus. He was taken from his family and was later trained by the gods, and the gods gave him challenges and obstacles to overcome threw his job as a slave. He later did a good job and Zeus let him him go but he shipped him out to sea and gave him challenges along the way traveling back home. An epic hero is a human being that does not care for his life but others, and the traits of a epic
In tales of Greek myths, the stories center around the feats and accomplishments of heroic figures. There are characters with immense strength and invincibility like that of the hero Heracles and the warrior Achilles, and there are those whose cunning outsmarts enemies like the hero Perseus beheading the Gorgon, Medusa, and Odysseus overcoming countless endeavors so he may return home. These myths are abundant with male protagonists, but lack a female heroine. The Hunger Games, written by Suzanne