1. Oddessy
For example, Odysseus ordered these women to pick up the bodies of the dead suitors and clean up the bloody hall. "These dead must be disposed first of all. ... In The Odyssey, there is a quote that supports this theme: "Hearing this land described by Pallas Athena, daughter of Zeus who rules the veering stormwind." ...
Even the dead women Odysseus meets in "the cold homes of death" (Homer p.340), are only known because they were the lovers of gods, and bore their children. ... Most of the descriptions given to the many women that Odysseus sees in the land of the dead merely describe their great beauty, the gods that conceived their children, and the greatness of these children. ...
King Priam wanted to defeat the enemy at the shores where they would land. ... Instead of reaching Troy the Greeks land at Mysia and after a battle received directions to Troy from the king. ... Where the Greeks land exactly is not made clear by Homer but according to Strauss some places might have been the west side of Bronze Age bay, the harbor at Besik bay, the Trojan Harbor (Strauss, 58). ... He forces his way into troy where he meets his dead but later his death is avenged when Paris is killed. ...
I fear the nymph foretold it all too well-on the high seas, she said, before I can reach my native land I'll fill my cup of pain! ... Odysseus' interview with the ghostlike shades (disembodied souls) of his dead friends reveals how critical nostos is. ... By god, I'd rather slave on earth for another man-some dirt-poor tenant farmer who scrapes to keep alive-than rule down here over all the breathless dead....
You forestalled it, goddess, by telling me how the land lie. ... After killing all of the suitors, Homer translates the great tactitioner as a ferocious beast, saying, In the shadowy hall full of dead men she found his father spattered and caked with blood like a mountain lion when he has gorged upon an ox, his kill-- with hot blood glistening over his whole chest, smeared on his jaws, baleful and terrifying-- even so encrimsoned was Odysseus up to his thighs and armpits (XXII, 446-55). ...
If Odysseus had not have been as handsome then Circe would not have seduced him and he would not have been giving the advice about the river of the dead, the Sirens, Scylla and Charyboidis. ... Athena helps him escape from Calypso's island, helps him land on Pheaecia, and she also disg! ...
In Homer's epic story The Odyssey, there were many major themes. One of these was the recurrent theme of violence, which plagued the story throughout. The editors of The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces states that "The Odyssey was not successful in resolving the problem of violence." ...
Before modern times, Homer, a blind poet, wrote an epic poem called the Odyssey. The Odyssey is the sequel to another epic by Homer, called the Iliad. These two poems cover the story of Odysseus, King of Ithaca, and his twenty years away from home. The Iliad is the bloody, yet compelling, tale of ...
• Circe- a beautiful sorceress • Anticlea- mother of Odysseus • King Alcinous- king of the Phaeacians; ruled with his wife, Queen Acretes • Eurycleia- Odysseus" maid since childhood • Teiresias- a dead prophet who lived in the underworld • Calypso- a nymph who took care of Odysseus for 7 years • Polyphemus- a Cyclops; son of Poseidon • Menelaus- husband of Helen; King of Sparta; brother of Agamemnon • Nausicaa- daughter of Alcinous and Queen Acretes • Aeolus- God of the Wind; Poseidon's cousin • Telemachus- Odysse...
Upon this misfortune, he and his men started a raid on the land of the Cicones. ... Storms then blew his ships to Libya and the land of the Lotus-eaters, where the crew was given Lotus fruit from which most lost their entire memories from home. ... Odysseus agreed and made a trip to the underworld, where he discovered many of his dead companions from Troy, and most importantly, Teiresias. ...