In epics like The Iliad and The Odyssey many emotions are displayed and acted out on. ... Homer includes many instances of compassion throughout both The Illiad and The Odyssey; teaching his fellow man to be compassionate to one another. ... Going along with this custom, in both The Iliad and The Odyssey Homer creates images of the gods exhibiting emotions. ... The Odyssey begins with the gods in council. ... Likewise, The Odyssey also incorporates many cases of compassion between men. ...

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Escort to visitor's next destination (Source: Reece, 6-7) In fact, Steve Reece notes that Homer's Odyssey contains twelve elaborate hospitality scenes and the Iliad has four (5). ... Homer then describes the second element, the reception. ... In Book IX of Odyssey, a sudden shift from upholding the hospitality code to violating it occurs in the story of Polyphemus. ... This element is made significant by Homer because it is "the only Homeric hospitality scene in which the host is not found at home" (Reece, 131). ... Inversely, Odysseus and his men enter the cave without being ...

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In the myth the Odyssey, Odysseus and his army had just won the Trojan war and "The Greeks went mad with victory the night they entered the city; they forgot what was due to the gods; and on their voyage home they were terribly punished" (Mythology 211). The Gods made it terribly difficult for Odysseus to make it home after the war and it took twenty years. ... Athena disguised him as a beggar and Odysseus went to his home and won the challenge he took his bow and shot every suitor. ... No matter what happens with your guest, you must treat them well and respectfully while they stay...

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William Bogard Antiquity and Modernity Of Gods and Men "Divine Subjectivity in "The Odyssey- Throughout the centuries, religion has served human societies as a form of justification to the eventful world around them "a way to bestow meaning upon things that are not quite understood, but are crucial to their existence. ... This belief becomes very apparent in Homer's epic poem "The Odyssey-. ... Vargas 2 Athena's actions on Odysseus's behalf are the reason behind Odysseus success as she herself puts it when she reveals ...

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He sat himself down away from the ships with a face as dark as night, and his silver bow rang death as he shot his arrow in the midst of them" (Homer). ... For example, The Odyssey is an epic poem that is still read today. ...

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"Hear me, he cried, O god of the silver bow, that protectest Chryse and holy Cilla and rulest Tenedos with thy might, hear me oh thou of Sminthe. If I have ever decked your temple with garlands, or burned your thigh-bones in fat of bulls or goats, grant my prayer, and let your arrows avenge these my...

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"Know Thyself ": The Role of Apollo in Greek Life and Literature The figure of Apollo has been supremely influential in Greek life and literature since the beginning of Greek civilization, and has resonated throughout history to both modern religion and psychology. The derivation of the name "Apol...

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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. ... Years went on and no one had written any stories down, but later two men Homer and Hesiod transmitted all the stories they knew into one, they had transmitted stories, poems, songs, and beliefs into one book called the Lliad. ...

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