The encounter between Odysseus and Poseidon's son Polyphemos the Kyklops is an allegorical episode that defines Poseidon as a force of nature, and his son as a result or specific instance of that force. ... In ancient Greek mythology, a son's character is believed to be a reflection of his father. Early in the poem, Telémakhos demonstrates this axiom by responding to Athena's questioning about his father, "My mother says I am his son; I know not surely. ... More specifically, throughout the poem, sons' identifiable character traits are frequently portrayed as being d...

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Beginning when Paris, the son of king Priam of Troy, stole Helen the wife of king Menelaus. ... Athena tells Telemachus that she thinks his father is still alive... - Telemachus believe what Athena tells him about his father and is eager to look for him although he is not 100 sure or fully convinced that his father is alive. ... Odysseus is the husband of Penelope and the father of Telemachus. ... Telemachus - Odysseus's son. ...

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It is shown after the verse number 12, "The younger one said to his father, 'Father, let me have the share of the estate that will come to me.' So the father divided the property between them." narrating the main conflict of the story which is when the younger son of the man asked for his inheritance and left their place. ... When he realized that he was wrong for doing such thing, he returned to his father's place, bowed his head and asked for his father's forgiveness. "Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I no longer deserve to be called your son" (Luke 1...

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It will be told with Clytemnestra being the main protagonist and her son, Orestes, being the antagonist of the story. ... He runs bath and sees his father's dead body. ... By breaking her oath and betraying her own husband, this was the fate she was given, death by her own son. ... He son avenges his father by killing her and he in result has an ill fate of his own through his act of revenge. ... Ironically she meets her death by the hands of her own child and son. ...

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Apollo- Son of Zeus. ... Orestes- Kills his mother for killing his father. ... Theseus- Son of the king of athens. Doubts his son which causes his death. ... Trojan War heroes: Paris- Son of the king of Troy. ...

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Already here we see how Tantalus is betraying himself by killing his own son and gets his justice from the gods who let him starve. ... Thyestes takes revenge by cursing Atreus, and then flees with his one remaining son Aegisthus. Atreus had two sons called Agamemnon and Menelaus. ... Clytaemnestra has also betrayed Agamemnon with her new lover, whom is none other than Aegisthus, the surviving son of Thyestes. ... Aigeus is childless and wants to become a father, but some god would have it so. ...

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Telemachus, Odysseus" son, also benefits from the hospitality of others as he struggles to maintain order in his father's household while still conducting himself as an honorable leader in Ithaca. ... Numerous themes in The Odyssey are conveyed through the character of Telemachus, however, Odysseus" son especially represents the cultural importance of hospitality. In Odysseus" absence, Telemachos courageously travels on a journey of his own, hoping to inquire any news of is father's location. ... Although the generosity that Telemachos receives from others exemplifies the cultural im...

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Moments later, a Cyclops named Polyphemos, son of Poseidon, entered and pushed a huge bolder covering the entrance to the cave. ... Peisistratos, son of Nestor, then offered some intestines to Telemachos and Athene as far as sacrificing it in hopes of a safe journey. ... Once he was recognized, Telemachos asked Nestor about his father. ... He reached the island just in the middle of a double marriage ceremony of Menaleus's daughter and son. ... The night ended and Telemachos was finally noticed to be Odysseus's son by Helen, Menaleus's wife. ...

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She was found clinging to her sons Hector's and Paris" graves and had to be dragged off to the ship by Ulysses. Hecuba's youngest son, Polydorus, however had been secretly sent by his father to be brought up as far away from the Trojan war in a land opposite of Troy named Thrace. ... When Polymestor, however, learned of Troy's fall, he cruelly murdered Polydorus for the large fortune of gold that he owned which his father left him. ...

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Orestes and Clytemnestra are truly mother and son. ... She despised her mother and wanted her to pay for the murder of her father, but maybe the gods will call it upon her to avenge her mother's death by murdering her brother. ... When Clytamnestra hears her son is alive and is coming after her, she requests the axe so she can kill him before he gets her, but when he approaches her when Clytamnestra tries to convince her son not to kill her; she nearly persuades him, but Pylades convinces Orestes that the oracle must be obeyed. Clytamnestra was warning her son that if he kills her th...

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Odysseus is forced to leave his wife and son, Penelope and Telemachus, as he goes to fight in the war and then return home from it. ... Telemachus, Odysseus' son, also embarks on a quest in the Odyssey - to find life's balance and purpose without his father. This makes for an interesting literary connection between father and son that gives the Odyssey a pleasing literary "roundness", or, "completion" that adds interest to the plotline. ...

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The underlying theme of Homer's masterwork, "The Iliad," is mortality. While there are obvious motifs throughout the poem, I believe that Homer is telling us that death is inevitable regardless of stature. The gods often are referred to as immortals showing us a main difference between the mortals a...

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Zeus didn't want to get involved, so he sent a prince named Paris, the son of King Priam of Troy in Anatolia to be the judge because he was the most honest person on earth (or he was too stupid to know the dispute between the goddess). ... A hero in Agamemnon's expedition called Achilles was the son of Peleus and Thetis. ... She warned her father, King Priam, but he wouldn't listen. ... Almost all the Trojan was killed except Aeneas (the son of Aphrodite) and Anchises. ...

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This scene not only shows that Hektor is a devoted warrior, but also that he is a loving husband and father. ... Andromache wishes for her husband to refrain from returning to battle: "you have no pity on your little son, nor on me, ill-starred, who soon must be your widow and for me it would be far batter to sink into that earth when I have lost you, for there is no other consolation for me after you have gone to your destiny "" (Iliad, 84-88) Andromache wishes Hector not return to battle in order for him to spare his own life and the grief and sorrow it would cause her and their so...

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The people of Greece, his parents, his wife Penelope and son Telemachus all believe Odysseus is dead. ... By telling the Cyclops his identity, Odysseus triggers the wrath of Poseidon, the god of the sea and also the father of the Cyclops. ... This makes it seem as if the letting the world know of his triumph and his son' kindness is "good". ... Because of Odysseus' decision to keep the herald and the bard alive, the fathers of the suitors come back for revenge which leads to another fight. ... History repeated itself when Odysseus kept the bard and herald alive to sing of h...

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This is revealed on page 154: "Penelope: In order to avoid quarrels, my father organized an archery contest for my suitors. ... Odysseus/Ulysses tells his son, Telemakhos/Telemachus, to take various weapons and hide them around the house. ... He made use of the weapons previously hidden by his son. ... I knew your father, Amphion. ...

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At the cave of the cyclops, Polyphemus, a son of Poseidon, Odysseus and his men are denied a hospitable welcome and, instead, several are attacked and eaten by Polyphemus. ... In addition, these men plot to murder Telemachus, as well as steal his father's possessions, wife, and kingdom. ... As a result of his respect for hospitality, Telemachus survives the suitors and is reunited with his father. ... For example, when Telemachus and Athena arrive at the palace of King Nestor, the powerful ruler of Pylos, Nestor and his son, Peisistratus, serve them a banquet without questioning who they ...

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The poor man did not even know about this plan and was shocked when my mother had greeted him as his future son-in-law. ... "Father!... "Father what have you done? ... Father, please wake up!... My father is now gone. ...

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"Penelope the Wise, tall in her beauty as Artemis or pale-gold Aphrodite, appeared from her high chamber and came down to throw her arms around her son" (Homer p.432). ... "And next I saw Amphitrion's true wife, Alcmene, mother, as all men know, of lionish Heracles, conceived when she lay close in Zeus's arms; and Megare, high-hearted Creons's daughter, wife of Amphitrion's unwearying son"(Homer p.347-8). ... "Dismiss your mother from the house, or make her marry the man her father names and she prefers"(Homer p.223). Menelaus's daughter has no choice as to who she ...

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Apollo Apollo, as referred to by the father of Chryses in the quote, is known as the God of the Silver Bow. ... He is the brother of Artemis and the son of Zeus and Leto. ... Apollo is the son of Zeus and Leto and is the twin sister of Artemis. ... He did kill it, but because it was a son of Gaea, he had to then serve as a cowherd for 9 years. ... When Apollo had caught up to her, he was about to embrace her, but Daphne's father turned her into a laurel tree. ...

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" (Homer) Apollo Apollo, as referred to by the father of Chryses in the quote, is known as the God of the Silver Bow. ... He is the brother of Artemis and the son of Zeus and Leto. ... Apollo is the son of Zeus and Leto and is the twin sister of Artemis. ... He did kill it, but because it was a son of Gaea, he had to then serve as a cowherd for 9 years. ... When Apollo had caught up to her, he was about to embrace her, but Daphne's father turned her into a laurel tree. ...

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In order to take revenge against her husband Gaea persuaded her son, Cronus, the youngest Titan, to castrate his father. ... When Uranus came to lie with Gaea that night, Cronus cut off his father's testicles and threw them into the sea. ... They soon went to Jupiter, The Sky God, who is Aphrodites first husband, Vulcan's, father. ... While she was protecting her son Aeneas, she was wounded; only then, after Zeus' order, did she leave the battlefield. ...

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"Sing, goddess, the anger of Peleus' son Achilles/ and its devastation" (Homer 1.1-2). ... This is apparent in the beginning of book 1 when Agamemnon refuses to return Chryseis to her father Chryses, priest of Apollo. ... "Son of Telamon, seed of Zeus, Aias, lord of the people:/ All that you have said seems spoken after my own mind./ Yet still the heart in me swells up in anger, when I remember/ The disgrace that he wrought upon me before the Argives,/ The son of Atreus, as if I were some dishonored vagabond"(Homer, 9.644-648). ... "Give me your armor to wear on my shoulde...

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Agamemnon is infuriated that he must return Chryseis to her father in order to end a plague sent by Apollo against the king and his people. ... Thetis, the goddess of the sea and Achilles' mother, has been able to convince Zeus to avenge her son because she came to the aid of the king of the gods in the past. ... Since that time, Zeus has always been partial to her and easily agrees to help her son. ... In contrast, Hector is eager to return there, even though Andromache, his wife, pleads with him to stay behind with her and their infant son, Astyanax. ... Thetis, afraid f...

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Orestes, after being sent away for seven years, Came back to avenge his fathers death. ... Lavinia rushes into the room after hearing the commotion and is just in time for her father in his last dying breath to accuse Christine of her crime. ... In turn she and the lover are killed themselves by the vengeful son and daughter. ... If you look at Electra, you see that in the years following her father's death her mourning turned into disgust for her mother Clytemnestra and Aedisthus. ...

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