The Odyssey covers Odysseus's difficult journey back home to Ithaca, which, unfortunately, takes ten more years. ... If they did, they would seek him out and kill him before he had a chance to return home to his faithful wife. One of the greatest examples of Odysseus" intelligence isn't even found in the Odyssey. ... Odysseus is definitely intelligent, and proved so extensively in the Odyssey. ... Once Odysseus returns home, he is met by several of his wife's suitors. ...

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In, "The Odyssey," Homer includes many female characters, which orchestrate key roles in the epic poem. ... Female figures play an important role in The Odyssey and reflect a complex, broad view of womanhood on Homer's part. ... When Odysseus returns to Ithaca, he has to fight off all of the suitors to get to Penelope and take back his home. Athena disguises him as an old beggar to help him get past the suitors and when he gets to Penelope, she turns Odysseus back into himself and even makes him more handsome. ... No man is immune to the temptation of P the Sirens call, so Odysseus puts ...

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"The Odyssey," by Homer, follows the journey of Odysseus after a ten year war campaign in Troy. ... 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). ... There were a plethora of ways Odysseus could have killed the...

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The odyssey is the continuation of the Iliad in which the Trojan war took place. ... ***This all takes place because Poseidon is mad with Odysseus b/c he killed this son the Cyclops**** - Mean while in Ithaca, many suitors are trying to marry Penelope and take over this estate, thinking he is dead... Zeus refuses to give her this consent because Poseidon has the right to be mad, after all Odysseus did kill Poseidon's son... - Telemachus gives notice to the suitors that he will hold an assembly the next day and order them to leave Odysseus estate... CHARACTERS Odysseus - The protagon...

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The concept of Xenia in Homer's Odyssey The concept of "xenia", described in Homer's Odyssey as the guest-host relationship played a dominant part in ancient Greece. ... The Odyssey begins 20 years after Odysseus has left Ithaca. ... (Book IV P.66 Lines 31-34) On the other hand Homer's Odyssey also portrays the abuse of the guest-host relationship when it narrates the way the suitors took advantage of Telemachos hospitality. The suitors violated the law of xenia in a variety of ways, first of all they refuse to leave when told to do so, then they feasted on everything...

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The Journey of Odysseus and Telemachos In The Odyssey written by Homer and translated by Richard Lattimore, several themes are made evident, conceived by the nature of the time period, and customs of the Greek people. ... In the intricate and well-developed plot of The Odyssey, Homer harmonized several subjects. ... Odysseus gently supplicated to the princess. ... Telemachos agrees with her orders, and before his departure he makes it clear to the suitors (robbing his home and proposing marriage to his mother Penelope) that he wants them all out of his house. ... After this event, the s...

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The suitors want her for her beauty and Odysseus kills them because of that. ... Odysseus meets many women in The Odyssey and each of their appearances directly affects his journey. ... (Odyssey, 6:15). ... Once at home he has the job of fixing the wrong that was down in his house by getting rid of the suitors. He must kill the twelve maids who slept with them. ...

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Her goal throughout the story of the Odyssey is to reunite Odysseus, the king of Ithaca, with his home and family, which he hasn't seen or kept in touch with for twenty years. ... The next day Penelope has arranged a challenge for all the suitors. ... Tele, Odysseus, and eumaues have a plan to get rid of all the suitors. The plan is to take all their weapons and kill them all. ... When the suitors are all killed, Odysseus and Penelope become one again. ...

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Odysseus and Achilles In Homer's epic poems "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey", Achilles and Odysseus are two characters that greatly encompass the human nature idealized by ancient Greeks. ... and finally professes to Odysseus that "iron is what you"re made of" (355). ... Odysseus also shows how having a "glorying spirit" can bring loss. ... For example, as he discovers the women of Ithaka to be servicing the suitors that raid his home, rather than kill them, Odysseus remembers his loss with the Kyklops and says to himself "Down; be steady. ... When he and his crew reach the great Kyklop...

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In his two most famous books, The Iliad and The Odyssey, those principles are seen in situations and characters. ... When this happens Achilleus joins the battle once again and kills Hector. The Odyssey is the story of the homecoming of another Greek hero Odysseus. Odysseus was not famous for his strength or bravery, but for his ability to deceive and trick. He was not in good terms with the gods so they didn't let him return home till his tenth year so he could fight off suitors of his wife. ...

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