We learn that Penelope is a smart, clever, tactful and perspicacious woman through several selections of The Odyssey, such as her trickery of the suitors with the spool. ... When she realizes the beggar is Odysseus, she is smart enough to realize to not make a big deal out of it, because if she does he may get trouble from the suitors. ... Another excerpt of The Odyssey is when Odysseus was disguised as beggar and goes to the palace. ... Penelope then tells Odysseus she had a dream that an eagle killed her twenty geese and then sat on the roof and claimed to be her husband, Odysseus who jus...

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Odysseus is a hero of all times thanks to Homer who wrote his story in The Odyssey. ... Homer wrote about the Trojan War, in which Odysseus took part in, in the Iliad, and about Odysseus" long journey home in, The Odyssey. ... In the Odyssey, Homer used a narrative structure to tell his stories. ... uises him when he finally reaches home in order to help trick the suitors. ... His strength was also useful when he had to string his bow in order to win Penelope from the suitors and kill them all. ...

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One relationship in the Odyssey that is unique to the Greek literature of the time is the bond between Penelope and Odysseus. ... In book 19, the clever side of Penelope is revealed when she tells all the suitors she is weaving a shroud for Laertes, Odysseus's father, and once it is finished she will pick a suitor to marry. ... Perhaps she is trying to juice the suitors of all she can before Odysseus comes back to kill them, or perhaps she is testing the beggar to see how he responds to her actions. ... The beggar then goes further to explain that Odysseus is on his way home and will cre...

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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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The Odyssey is said to contain 24 books as the Iliad. ... Penelope, who will be bearing Odysseus" son (Telemachus), tried to discourage Odysseus from joining the Greek expedition being afraid that Odysseus might not return and that, suitors might try to court her. ... Storms and strong waves met the departing Greeks; many were killed in the tempest including Ajax (the soldier) while Menelaus was blown to Egypt. ... After ten years and more when Odysseus had not returned to Ithaca, suitors from all places swarmed to Penelope's castle asking for her hand. ... Teiresias warned Odysseus th...

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In Homer's epic, The Odyssey, Odysseus is a character that gives nothing, and takes everything, and yet he is still viewed as an honorable man in many people's eyes. ... When six of his crew members are killed, he shows absolutely no remorse for their death. ... He cannot wait to return home so he can kill the suitors and receive all the rewards, and power that he believes he deserves. ... The only thing he seeks throughout The Odyssey is to return home and kill the suitors who are trying to take over his house and his wife. ... The ghastly character traits of Odysseus" non heroi...

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In Homer's epic, The Odyssey, Odysseus is a character that gives nothing, and takes everything, and yet he is still viewed as an honorable man in many people's eyes. ... When six of his crew members are killed, he shows absolutely no remorse for their death. ... He cannot wait to return home so he can kill the suitors and receive all the rewards, and power that he believes he deserves. ... The only thing he seeks throughout The Odyssey is to return home and kill the suitors who are trying to take over his house and his wife. ... The ghastly character traits of Odysseus" non heroi...

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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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Odysseus, the hero of The Odyssey, was born into royalty and ruled the city-state of Ithaca when he was older. ... Odysseus encompassed this quality and proved it throughout the story of The Odyssey. ... This killed the entire crew with the exception of Odysseus, who was now left to fend for himself in the roaring sea. ... If Odysseus had returned to his kingdom unaware of this fact, he would have been attacked or possibly killed by these men. ... After he had achieved the task to win Penelope, Odysseus, still in disguise, planed to kill all of his wife's suitors. ...

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In The Odyssey, Odysseus disguises himself in order to get into Penelope's home without her knowing it was him. ... Both versions share the common ground of Odysseus/Ulysses wanting to kill the Suitors, and his methods of doing so. ... She also directs him to kill all of the suitors: "Penelope [as though in a trance]. Kill! ... - Ulysses follows her wish and kills the suitors while explaining to them why they should die. ...

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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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and that of Homer's " Odyssey" are similar. ... The Odyssey the main character's name is Odysseus and in the film it is Ulysses. ... In the Odyssey, Odysseus and his men put sheep-skin over their bodies to disguise themselves as sheep to hide from the Cyclops. ... Odysseus feared that when he came back he would loose all he had to the suitors who had to tried to flatter his wife for the throne and kill his son. ... To find out if it was safe for him to go back home Odysseus was changed into an elderly man to disguises himself from his people and the suitor. ...

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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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In the myth the Odyssey, Odysseus and his army had just won the Trojan war and "The Greeks went mad with victory the night they entered the city; they forgot what was due to the gods; and on their voyage home they were terribly punished" (Mythology 211). ... For example, the hero Odysseus had returned back from his twenty year long journey to his home where suitors had taken over the house. Athena disguised him as a beggar and Odysseus went to his home and won the challenge he took his bow and shot every suitor. ... To kill a room full of men for Odysseus, was seen as heroic and peo...

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