wrote, “People make mistakes, thinking they’re alone.” Homer’s epic poem, The Odyssey, illustrates this as the main character takes on a long, difficult journey in his attempt to travel back home. In The Odyssey, Homer uses the actions of Odysseus and the gods to show that man depends on the gods more than he realizes, demonstrating that having faith in others is just as important as relying on one’s own actions. Throughout The Odyssey, Odysseus believes he is alone. This leads to some poor decisions
warrior king on his journey home; the wrath of the gods, love, lust and revenge, this is the story of Odysseus. After a great victory at Troy, Odysseus and his crew are looking forward to a triumphant return home to Ithaca. Their journey becomes a twenty year odyssey, complicated and extended by the caprice of the gods, the strength and weakness of men, and divine intervention. In Homer’s The Odyssey, three characters who greatly impacted Odysseus’s journey are Circe, his crew, and Athena. First is
same struggles. In Homers world, our main character, Odysseus, is the brave king of Ithaca who on countless occasions displays his cunningness, strength, and loyalty like many other great heroes do. On the surface, he may appear to be grand and powerful, but he holds deep emotions of pride, love, and melancholy. In the Odyssey, written by Homer, our
itself throughout Book 10. Just as Odysseus taunts the blinded Polyphemus in book 9 by boasting about his defeat of the Cyclops, the members of his crew prove unable to resist looking into Aeolus’s bag, and their greed ends up complicating their nostos, or homeward voyage. As important and illustrative of weak-mindedness, however, is that Odysseus lets a year waste away in the arms of the goddess Circe. While his crew certainly seems not to mind the respite, Odysseus particularly enjoys it, even though
One of Homer’s most fascinating and intriguing pieces of work is “The Odyssey”. Homer was believed to be the first and most fascinating epic poet of his time by the ancient Greeks. Many scholars believe “The Odyssey” was composed near the end of the 8th century and is a sequel to “The Illiad”. Although “The Odyssey” was composed near the end of the 8th century, many scholars believe that it was orally passed since around 1200 B.C. During the time in which “The Odyssey” was written major economic
by Homer has a very different outlook on life and death. This tells quite a bit about their way of life, and how they ought to live. The Odyssey does not joke about death, but treats it a lot more naturally. That portrayal deeply influenced the way that people ought to live in the Odyssey. The people of ancient Greece were aspiring to be heros, much like Odysseus