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
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
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
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Telemachy and Adulthood Within ancient Greek society and Homer’s Odyssey, we see clear indications of what it means to be an adult. Such characteristics include achieving kleos - glory - and having the confidence, leadership, courage, and determination shown in the attributes of the other male adults within the epic poem. Most men are characterized as such because they have achieve some form of glory, kleos, through war or great deeds. Moreover, they show courage and confidence in the face of challenges