The epic hero, Odysseus in the Odyssey truly portrays the values of a people in a number of different ways. In the Odyssey, Homer shows how people admired good military leaders and how people admired the gods who helped people. ... Being religious, sacrificing animals to please the gods and xenia (hospitality to strangers and friends) were things that the early Greeks valued as showed in The Odyssey. ... There are many examples of xenia in The Odyssey, but one is when Kirke let Odysseus and his men stay with her for a long time. ... In conclusion, Homer's The Odyssey showed the values o...

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I get the impression from the readings in the Odyssey and the articles I read that she was a very passionate individual, not in an intimate sense but passionate about her beliefs. I like the picture that is painted of her in the first chapter of the Odyssey; she seems so caring and concerned when she talks to Telemachus. ...

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In his epic, The Odyssey, he presents an epic hero that displays the qualities that are valued by the society from which he comes. ... By studying Odysseus's reactions in the various adventures of The Odyssey, the modern reader can hypothesize that the Greek society of 900 B.C. valued the following characteristics; emotion, beauty, and loyalty in their heroes. ... In Homer's Epic, The Odyssey, it's main character Odysseus set the highest standards of an epic hero. ...

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Virgil's Aeneid attacked basic Greek ideas. The Greeks were looked upon negatively by the Romans. The Romans disagreed with the Greek ideals, religion, and most importantly-fate. The Romans disagreed with the Greeks on almost every major aspect of the Greek culture. The Roman ideals differed gre...

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Thomas Cahill's Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea, depicts the culture of ancient Greece. It describes the Greece's way of life from politics to art. I intend to prove that Greek works, both written and non-written, can inspire people to think differently and the total effects these works had as a whole in ...

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"To do something a man cannot do is what a god is considered." These were words spoken by Alexander the Great. He must be referring to himself, because Alexander was a god to many people. He was a man like no other, who could do things other humans could not even imagine. Alexander achieved ...

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After colonizing their own peninsula the Greeks set out across the Aegean and started encountering the many different cultures and peoples that occupied these lands. Mariners came home from these voyages with tales of wondrous lands and strange peoples and these tales influenced the storytellers of ...

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The Greek and Roman World by W.G. Hardy contrasts the cultures and lifestyles of the Romans and the Greeks. Beginning with a brief overview of how the Greeks came about, Hardy explains the archaeological findings of German Businessman Schliemann and Englishman, Sir Arthur Evens. He also goes onto ...

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Greek Civ versus Roman Civ Today's society in which we live in has based itself on the past achievements and failures of previous civilizations which rose and fell with the hands of time. Every one of those civilizations made certain contributions to history as well as developing human intellectuali...

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