Homer's Odyssey is the story of Odysseus an epic mythological Greek hero of the ancient world. In the Odyssey, Odysseus tries to find his self and in doing so becomes an arrogant, boastful, prideful, warrior king who is lost at sea for twenty years. ... Odysseus practically went out of his way to insure his name as a household one by defeating great Cyclopes, surviving the high seas, finding favor upon the gods, and nearly escaping dangerous instances. ...

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Thomas Cahill's Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea, depicts the culture of ancient Greece. ... The Iliad not only teaches Greeks the ideal way of being a warrior but it also gives the modern world a view of ancient warfare. ... This increase of literacy among the Greeks gave empowerment to the people and encourage them to solve the mysteries of the world. ...

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The storm raged, and the massive sea devoured Odysseus" ship and the last of his crew. Zeus had completed his task in seeking vengeance towards the disrespectful crew. In The Odyssey by Homer, Greek ethics and conduct are exhibited continuously. The epic's three most prevalent themes include respec...

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If a hero isn't GREAT looking, he/she isn't going to make it in the hero world. ... In The Odyssey, the vast setting is the "known" world during that time period. ... He saw the cities and the sea(s)" (3). This shows that his travels went from adventures in Troy, to famous cities, and the dangerous sea. ...

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"He made the earth upon it, and the sky, and the sea's water, / and the tireless sun, and the moon waxing into her fullness." ... The shield of Achilles seems to be nothing less than a microcosm of the world, since the first descriptions are of the earth, sun, sky, and sea. ...

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Odysseus displays leadership when Charybdis who was a giant hole in the sea that swallowed and vomited the sea three times a day. ... He resembled Jesus a little bit when Jesus and his disciples were in a ferocious storm on the Sea of Galilee, Jesus comforted them and quieted the storm. ... He also showed the characteristic of beauty, which is very highly valued by both the early Greeks and the World today, they both like to look at pretty people. ...

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Ulysses is a poem about a mighty king who decides to pass his thrown to his son to pursue his dream of traveling the world. ... He has enjoyed all his experiences as a sailor who travels the seas, and he considers himself a symbol for everyone who wanders and roams the earth. ... Telemachus will do his work of governing the island while Ulysses will do his work of traveling the seas: "He works his work, I mine." ... Ulysses encourages his men to make use of their old age because "'tis not too late to seek a newer world." ... The poem shows a man's devotion to "traveling the world"...

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Love flows like a river, endlessly drifting until it expands to the everlasting sea and, although it may be changed, it still remains. ... Some fear the current taking over them and drifting them to a lost and lonely world without it. ... They travel together finally reunited into the eternal horizon of a faithful, beautiful, tranquil sea. Together, they could encounter the world....

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By telling the Cyclops his identity, Odysseus triggers the wrath of Poseidon, the god of the sea and also the father of the Cyclops. ... This makes it seem as if the letting the world know of his triumph and his son' kindness is "good". ... But even after the ten years he spent drifting out on sea caused by him revealing his identity to the Cyclops which incurred the wrath of Poseidon, he does not learn his lesson. ...

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And if again one of the gods shall wreck me on the wine-dark sea, I will be patient still, bearing within my breast a heart well-tried with trouble; for in times past much have I borne and much have toiled, in waves and war; to that, let this be added." ... But I, who wish to read the book of the world and the book of my own nature, did presume to despise the letters and signs. I called the world of appearances, illusion. ... The World of Myth, p. 295 Leeming states that, "The myth that emerges from the many cultural versions of the hero, then, must be seen as a universal metaphor for the h...

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In another part of the epic, Odysseus was just set free and finds himself at sea on his way home. ... There are many strong, confident women in our world today, and were many in our past as well. ... Female characters play an important role in our world today and as well as in the Odyssey....

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