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. ... Upon Poseidon's departure to Ethiopia, Zeus had then ordered that Calypso release Odysseus, who gave him an ax. ... Resenting this fact, Poseidon turned the new crew into stone for their generosity. ... There he was immediately greeted by Nestor, in the middle of offeri...

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This is most evident in Homer's The Odyssey. ... Needless to say, Poseidon was none too pleased and decided to teach the mortal hero a hard learned lesson. ... In book five of The Odyssey, Homer perceptively describes the contempt Poseidon feels towards Odysseus in the following passage: But now Poseidon, god of the earthquake, saw him- just returning home from his Ethiopian friends, from miles away on the Solymi mountain-range and it made his fury boil even more. ... Polyphemus is a brutish cyclops, who also happens to be a shepherd and the son of Poseidon. ... In book ten of...

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., and was illuminated five hundred years later in Homer's Iliad and the Odyssey, clearly following the oral traditions of ancient societies. ... Zeus and Hera are at the apex of the Pantheon, followed by Poseidon, Aphrodite, Athena, Artemis, Apollo, Ares, and others, but as in the Near East when their mythology relates the repossession of female deities by male deities, the same process occurred in Greece at this time. ...

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The poet Homer's 8th-century BC epics the Iliad and the Odyssey, for example, tell the story of the (mythical) Trojan War as a divine conflict as well as a human one. ... Which tells us that Cronus (the father of Zeus, Iasion, Demeter, Hestia, Hera, hades, Poseidon and Amphitrite) was told by Gaea that one of his offspring would over throw him he would swallow every son and daughter to ensure they would never have the chance, however when it came time for his youngest son (Zeus) to be born his mother went to a cave and gave birth to Zeus there he would grow with help from her parent the...

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