Far removed from today's individualistic society, is the ancient Greece portrayed in Homer's The Odyssey, where hospitality and good-will were customary. ... To acknowledge the importance of a major principle in ancient Greek culture, the purpose of this essay is to examine the role that hospitality plays in The Odyssey. Gestures of hospitality in The Odyssey were used as an instrument to tell the reader who were the protagonists and who were the antagonists. ... Two major characters demonstrating cordiality are Telemachus and Penelope. ... Nearly every encounter in The Odyssey exhib...

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In literary works such as "The Odyssey", "Allegory of the Cave" and "Antigone", and in such forms as "Sculptures", or the Parthenon, we are able to see these how the Greeks developed these new concept words. ... In "The Odyssey", a man encounters many battles and obstacles throughout the his life, and in the first lines of the story, we are given the knowledge that main character is a man of great importance and excellence. ... The concept of the arete is clear expressed in the first line of "The Odyssey", the concept of ananke is expressed by the fate of the prisoners when they see the sun ...

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The Aeneid is not a mere plagiarism of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. ... This is evidenced in book VI of the Aeneid, which superficially seems like a complete imitation of book XI of the Odyssey. ... Theonoe, the other strong female character in Helen, deceives her brother into thinking she knows nothing of Menelaus being alive and in Egypt. ... These rather unflattering portrayals of women are tempered, however, by contrasting them with the male characters of the plays. ...

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The Ideal Hero Each culture does have its individual images of what the ideal hero should be, but for the most part, the general definition of a hero1 is universal and therefore difficult to escape. In the cultural epics of Gilgamesh, The Odyssey, and Things Fall Apart the idealistic hero is thor...

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He is famous for writing both The Iliad and The Odyssey. ... One if his stories, The Odyssey, taught there was something much more important than battles, and death. ... When the Greeks created their alphabet consisting of fewer characters, this revolutionized Greece. ...

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Ras Shamra, a true Semitic alphabetical script, was found on clay tablets inscribed around 1500 BCE, it used 30 cuneiform-like characters to represent elementary consonant sounds. ... In 700 BCE a cultural renaissance occurred with the creation of Homer's Odyssey and Iliad and improvements on Phoenician architecture, converting them into art forms with more harmony. ... Chinese characters are logograms, graphic signs that represent an entire word. ...

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