The film takes the story out of the ancient world and sets in old Mississippi during the Great Depression era. ... "It's fare thee well my old lover" this was a line in the song, which both men's motivation to get home were to see their lovers once again. ... They escaped, but angered the god of the sea Poseidon, who was the Cyclops father. ... Odysseus had gone struk down by Poseidon God of the sea and landed upon and island of Calypso. ... Ulysses disguise himself as an older man with a beard as he sings "Man of constant Sorrow" while at his home town where the police were lo...

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Odysseus is then eager to get home but he provokes the wrath of Poseidon, god of the sea, and is punished with fog and flat winds. ... Athena made Odysseus an old man in appearance so as to not be recognized in his home. ... The competition is won if anyone can string Odysseus" old bow and shoot an arrow through the holes on the ax heads. Against the ridicule of the men Odysseus as an old man succeeds. ...

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Odysseus was tested throughout his journey home even though he was a man of rank. ... For a weak man, it would have been easy to give up faith, but Odysseus, being the strong man that he was, continued homeward in spite of the many hindrances. ... While they could have grown old together, they didn't because of the long separation. ... As when the welcome land appears to swimmers, whose sturdy ship Poseidon wrecked at sea, confounded by the winds and solid waters; a few escape the sea and swim ashore; swift salt forms crusts at their flesh; they climb the welcome land, and are escaped fro...

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He has enjoyed all his experiences as a sailor who travels the seas, and he considers himself a symbol for everyone who wanders and roams the earth. ... Telemachus will do his work of governing the island while Ulysses will do his work of traveling the seas: "He works his work, I mine." ... Ulysses encourages his men to make use of their old age because "'tis not too late to seek a newer world." ... The men themselves on the other hand feel they are getting to old; they are too weak in their old age. ... The poem shows a man's devotion to "traveling the world" and keeping an open ...

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This only outrages the giant as he tries to crush the boat by launching rocks into the sea. ... The Phaikians are the most civilized, sea baring people of the world and they are the people of Poseidon, which if Odysseus does end up revealing himself too soon, he could end up with one of two outcomes. ... The second evident instance takes place in the great hall while Odysseus is getting a bath from his old maid, Eurykhleia. Odysseus knows she will recognize his scar and it is very wise of him to ask the old nurse to bathe him in a very cunning way. Here, she recognizes his old hunting sca...

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The goddess Circe addresses this problem in book XXII, when Odysseus has to pass the sea monster Skylla. ... The translated text states: At this the man of randing mind, Odysseus, cried: "So hard beset! ... (XIII, 480-92) Although ready for battle at the moment of quote, he instead returns to his hall under the disguise of an old man. ... "The Odyssey" is a tale of a man who longs for home after a ten yearlong campaign and nine years at sea. ... For some, the Odyssey is just a book about a man overcoming adversity, nothing more, nothing less. ...

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As I walked around the town, I saw an old man come running towards me and looked as if he was in trouble. ... So I took him to the old man and to give him his goods. ... The old man invited me in and told me to follow him so he can offer me hospitality. ... From Ilium, the seas took us to Ismarus city of Cicones. ... The old man very kindly agreed and let me stayed there for one night. ...

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This also shows that Odysseus was a sensitive man who was very homesick, and whenever he heard anything about his past life or his friends he would have most likely been touched. ... Odysseus shows the quality of beauty when Athena changed Odysseus from an old beggar to a hero. ... Odysseus displays leadership when Charybdis who was a giant hole in the sea that swallowed and vomited the sea three times a day. ... He resembled Jesus a little bit when Jesus and his disciples were in a ferocious storm on the Sea of Galilee, Jesus comforted them and quieted the storm. ...

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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 was an extremely determined man who would let nothing stop him from reaching his goal. ... None of the men are able to accomplish this feat because Odysseus was the only man strong enough to bend to bow. ... Zeus agreed and Calypso, a sea nymph, released Odysseus who had been with her for eight years. ... Poseidon stirred up a fierce storm that destroyed the hero's raft while at sea. ...

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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. ... When the gods intervene and tell Calypso that Odysseus must leave, she attempts to lure and distract him by offering him marriage to her and immortality, "If you could see it all, before you go-all the adversity you face at sea-you would stay here, and guard this house, and be immortal-though you wanted her forever, that bride for whom you pine each day. ... Other female characters, which like Calypso represent man&...

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Who has know his own engendering: I wish at least I had some happy man as father, growing old in his own house - but unknown death and silence are the fate of him that, since you ask, the call my father... You came across the open sea for this - to find out where the great earth hides you father and what the doom was that he came upon. Go to old Nestor, master Charioteer, so we may broach the storehouse of his mind. ... Penelope says her objections but Telemakhos states that he is the man of the house and that he want the beggar to have a chance. ... Telemakhos went from being a bo...

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The epic begins in Troy (in Asia Minor, across the Aegean Sea from modern-day Greece) and its shores in the Aegean Sea to the island of the Lotus-eaters; Polyphemus, a Cyclops; to the island of King Aeolus, God of the Wind; island of the beautiful sorceress, Circe; to the island of Persephone- Erebus- an earthly doorway to the underworld; to the island of the Sun; the place of the nymph Calypso; and the Kingdom of the Phaeacians. ... Mercury in Roman Mythology • Poseidon- God of the Sea IV- Plot - The epic Odyssey begins (as shown in the movie) when Odysseus bid Penelope, his wife,...

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- So Athena disguises herself as Odysseus's old friend Mentes and goes to Telemachus, Odysseus's son who was a young boy when Odysseus left and now a young man. ... - Athena visits Telemachus again but this time disguised as a mentor, who is another old friend of Odysseus. ... - Proteus another man there in Sparta told Telemachus. ... She often appears in disguise as Mentor, an old friend of Odysseus. Poseidon - God of the sea. ...

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Also, a hero is to be born of high status, he receives which from his mother Thetis, the sea goddess. ... When first born, Thetis, the sea goddess, tried to make Achilles an immortal in anyway she could. ... He was a mortal man who favored by all immortal gods. ... Even with the discussions of how Achilles will receive his honor from the Greeks young and old, he did not change his mind. ...

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One at a time, each suitor takes on the challenge; however, fails upon achieving it except Odysseus, who "entered his own home, like a miserable beggar, an old man leaning upon a staff, and clothed in rags" (218). ... As they began to sail by the island of these two creatures, "The men were terrified, the oars flew out of their hands and fell in the sea dragging down the ship's sides" (154). ... Likewise, Odysseus "walked the whole length of the ship, pausing by each man, and coaxing them not to lose heart," reassuring them that they will survive (154). ...

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