There is a large difference between the characters that accompany Odysseus and Ulysses Everett. Odysseus is a great king that receives support from the Greek gods during his return home. Athena the goddess of purposeful battle pleads for his life from Calypso and helps him escape Poseidon. In addition, she leads him to Eumaeus, who is loyal to the King and instrumental in reclaiming the throne. Odysseus is surrounded by companions with extra ordinary powers and people that are loyal to him due to
Polytheistic as they had more than one God. On the other hand the Hebrew were monotheistic and believed in only one god. Texts from these ancient civilizations demonstrates how god controls their lives. The Epic of Gilgamesh, The Hebrew Bible, and The Odyssey are texts that demonstrates how the divinity played a major role in someone’s life. When things don’t go according to god’s wish, then god punish the humans in order to teach them a lesson. Sometimes
Stories, regardless of a particular genre, carry meanings that are developed in the plot in hopes of allowing the reader to see the morals that are contained within. In both the Book of Exodus and the Odyssey, we see two character heroes, each with their own story and adventures, battling through trials to get to a particular destination, and being guided by divine powers. Moses and Odysseus are both considered heroes, and while they have divine blessing from their respective gods, they are extremely
in the Greek poem The Odyssey shows what the Greeks thought of them and their roles in society. The same attitudes and stereotypes about women that the Greeks had still exist in modern-day cultures around the world. These stereotypes and roles include men viewing women as possessions, the only place for a women is in the home, and the superiority of men to women. In examining the Greek culture versus modern-day societies, it’s difficult to see that many similarities between them still exist today
each group is a set of virtues, virtues which, when juxtaposed, reveal major differences between the two cultures and their citizens’ everyday lives. The virtues of each culture are very similar, suggesting that the virtuous Greek man would appear