But when he ended up in the Land of the Dead, he felt remorse for all of his men that he didn't give the proper burial to. ... Upon arriving at the Land of the Dead, Odysseus doesn't show a lot of care for his crew and he has a lot of hubris. After the Land of the Dead, Odysseus is more caring towards his crew, he becomes more sensible, and he has less hubris. After the Land of the Dead, Odysseus makes wiser decisions, showing that his hubris is waning even more. ... In the Land of the Dead, Odysseus realizes that he had damned his dead crewmates, and he learns that he will die...

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Odysseus gains this information from a dead poet named Teiresias in Erebus, known as the land of the dead. The dead man tells him about Charybdis, the risky whirlpool, and Scylla the six-headed, female monster. ...

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For example, Odysseus ordered these women to pick up the bodies of the dead suitors and clean up the bloody hall. "These dead must be disposed first of all. ... In The Odyssey, there is a quote that supports this theme: "Hearing this land described by Pallas Athena, daughter of Zeus who rules the veering stormwind." ...

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Even the dead women Odysseus meets in "the cold homes of death" (Homer p.340), are only known because they were the lovers of gods, and bore their children. ... Most of the descriptions given to the many women that Odysseus sees in the land of the dead merely describe their great beauty, the gods that conceived their children, and the greatness of these children. ...

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At one point Telemachus (Odysseus' Son) thought he was dead. ... After leaving Troy Odysseus attacks the land of the Cicones. ... Afterwards Odysseus and his crew land on the island of the Cyclops. ...

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Calypso agrees to let him go but first offers Odysseus some advice and guidance saying, "Only I will not aid [you] on [your] way, for I have no ships fitted with oars, nor crews to bear [you] over the broad ocean ridges; but I will freely give [you] counsel and not hide how [you] may come unharmed to [your] own native land"(Bloom, 47). ... Even though Hades is the land of the dead, Odysseus has expectations that he can be guided. ... Hades holds the spirits of the dead and Circe, a sorcerer goddess. Circe once told Odysseus to go and talk to the dead using a special potion of hers. ... When Od...

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King Priam wanted to defeat the enemy at the shores where they would land. ... Instead of reaching Troy the Greeks land at Mysia and after a battle received directions to Troy from the king. ... Where the Greeks land exactly is not made clear by Homer but according to Strauss some places might have been the west side of Bronze Age bay, the harbor at Besik bay, the Trojan Harbor (Strauss, 58). ... He forces his way into troy where he meets his dead but later his death is avenged when Paris is killed. ...

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Even the dead women Odysseus meets in "the cold homes of death" (Homer p.326), are only known because they were the lovers of gods, and bore their children. ... Most of the descriptions given to the many women that Odysseus sees in the land of the dead merely describe their great beauty, the gods that conceived their children, and the greatness of these children. ...

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Another example of his mental, or rather, emotional endurance is when he faces his dead mother in the Underworld. ... He killed the suitors for ravaging the land that he built himself, for his rage allowed him to do so. ...

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I fear the nymph foretold it all too well-on the high seas, she said, before I can reach my native land I'll fill my cup of pain! ... Odysseus' interview with the ghostlike shades (disembodied souls) of his dead friends reveals how critical nostos is. ... By god, I'd rather slave on earth for another man-some dirt-poor tenant farmer who scrapes to keep alive-than rule down here over all the breathless dead....

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After fighting for ten years in the Trojan War, Odysseus and his men sail to the land of the KyKlopes, a violent and uncivilized race of one–eyed giants. ... Perseverance is shown through Penelope's resistance to all the suitors who tried to marry her and take over Odysseus's land. ... Even though she is told to move on, and that Odysseus is most likely dead, she is still faithful to her husband. ...

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You forestalled it, goddess, by telling me how the land lie. ... 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). ...

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If Odysseus had not have been as handsome then Circe would not have seduced him and he would not have been giving the advice about the river of the dead, the Sirens, Scylla and Charyboidis. ... Athena helps him escape from Calypso's island, helps him land on Pheaecia, and she also disg! ...

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Building his own raft, Odysseus sails aimlessly until finding land finally " on the eighteenth day [when] some shadowy hills appeared" (Homer 25). ... Once Fortunado becomes drunk from the Medoc, Montressor chains him to a wall, leaving him for dead. ...

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In Homer's epic story The Odyssey, there were many major themes. One of these was the recurrent theme of violence, which plagued the story throughout. The editors of The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces states that "The Odyssey was not successful in resolving the problem of violence." ...

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Before modern times, Homer, a blind poet, wrote an epic poem called the Odyssey. The Odyssey is the sequel to another epic by Homer, called the Iliad. These two poems cover the story of Odysseus, King of Ithaca, and his twenty years away from home. The Iliad is the bloody, yet compelling, tale of ...

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• Circe- a beautiful sorceress • Anticlea- mother of Odysseus • King Alcinous- king of the Phaeacians; ruled with his wife, Queen Acretes • Eurycleia- Odysseus" maid since childhood • Teiresias- a dead prophet who lived in the underworld • Calypso- a nymph who took care of Odysseus for 7 years • Polyphemus- a Cyclops; son of Poseidon • Menelaus- husband of Helen; King of Sparta; brother of Agamemnon • Nausicaa- daughter of Alcinous and Queen Acretes • Aeolus- God of the Wind; Poseidon's cousin • Telemachus- Odysse...

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Upon this misfortune, he and his men started a raid on the land of the Cicones. ... Storms then blew his ships to Libya and the land of the Lotus-eaters, where the crew was given Lotus fruit from which most lost their entire memories from home. ... Odysseus agreed and made a trip to the underworld, where he discovered many of his dead companions from Troy, and most importantly, Teiresias. ...

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