The film takes the story out of the ancient world and sets in old Mississippi during the Great Depression era. ... The theme song in O" Brother, Where Art Thou?... 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 looking for him. ...

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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. ... - Proteus another man there in Sparta told Telemachus. ... MAYOR THEMES: Will: Telemachus wants to find his father and bring him back home. ... She often appears in disguise as Mentor, an old friend of Odysseus. Poseidon - God of the sea. ...

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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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Achilles has pity on the old man, and returns the body. ... At the first thought or reading, the main theme of this epic poem seems like the description of gruesomeness of war in that it tells us of the Trojan war in full detail. However, the real story centers on one awesome fighter, man, and hero-that man is Achilles. ... He is the son of Peleus, King of the Mymidons, and Thetis the sea goddess; he and his fellow Myrmidons come to Troy as part of the Greek force led by King Agamemnon. ... Another man in this poem resembles Achilles is Agamemnon, who is the leader of the Greek army and the s...

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• Grade Level: High School