The Iliad, followed by Odyssey are the examples of epic poetry in the early Greek literature, they "emphasized the ideals of honor and bravery and had an enormous influence on Greek culture- (Myrsiades 1997). ... Furthermore, in the Greek heroic conduct there is "the importance of each character's phusis - his nature" (UM 2002). ... The conflict does not make living easy and serves personal development, at the same time promulgating conscious changes of character. ... "The [medieval] hero represents a kind of hypermasculinity, and exaggerated and perhaps idealized version of malenes...

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Each character experiences the competing impulses that exist within all human beings: the instinct to live morally, act peacefully, follow the true and the good or the instinct to satisfy one's immediate desires, act violently and enforce one's will. ... He is also the character who has the greatest appreciation of the gods that are the basis of civilised life. ... The language of the characters reflects either the degree of either their civilisation or their savagery. ... In the opening of Homer's the Odyssey, the very first adjective Homer applies to Odysseus is "polyt...

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"The world is enigmatical, every thing said and every thing known and done, and must not be taken literally, but genially. We must be at the top of our condition to understand any thing rightly." - Ralph Waldo Emerson A Condensation of Its Context Toward the end of his notebook, "Naturalist," Ralph Waldo Emerson entered sentence (dated 1853) that marks a symbolic vision of nature familiar to his readers and, in more recent years, of concern to his ecologically minded critics: "He is the richest who has most use for nature as raw material of tropes and symbols with which to describe his life....

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