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
Books 5-8 of Homer’s, The Odyssey reveal the cultures of Greek society. The Greeks' beliefs and customs made them a powerful and respected civilization. In Greek culture, people often paid their respects, known as Xenia, towards others. People would feed and bathe guests, especially kings and queens. When the princess found Odysseus, she offered to “give [her] newfound friend some food and drink, and bathe [him] in the river” (6,230). Nausicaa showed her respects towards Odysseus because he might
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 Collins and adapted into film, creates a contemporary plot stemming from the mythology
"The Odyssey." The Norton Anthology of World Literature. By Martin Puchner. Vol. A. New York: W.W. Norton, 2012. N. pag. Print. Gilbert, Sandra M., and Susan Gubar. The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination
Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey begins at a point equivalent to the middle of a horrific basketball season. The team has yet to have one victory, more than half the men are down for the count, and the high hopes everyone started with have officially been demolished. Odysseus is on his journey home from the Trojan War a hero when he faces numerous hardships that eventually keep him from his homeland of Ithaca for twenty years. When the despairing Odysseus is introduced he has lost his entire crew and
The Odyssey, by Homer, is an epic poem following the journey of the legendary Odysseus on his journey home from the Trojan War. Odysseus is a combination of the self-made, self-assured man and the embodiment of the standards and mores of his culture. He is favored by the gods and respected and admired by the mortals. Even the wrath of Poseidon does not keep him from his homecoming. He is confident that he represents virtue even when a modern audience might not be so sure. But his confidence is what
The Bible testament First Corinthians follows an epistle named Paul. Biblical historian Carmen Gillespie says that there are many people to travel to the city of Corinth of various nationalities and experiences. It was a port city and had the reputation as a city where sexual conduct occurred often. The epistle Paul wanted to build a church in the city to to acquire sanctity and he was successful. This involves First Corinthians life due to the fact that her life was similar to that of the city