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The Muse in Homer's "Odyssey", 2008.
An analysis of the role of the muse on the storytelling of Homer's "Odyssey."
712 words (approx. 2.8 pages), 1 source, MLA, £ 18.95
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This paper discusses the role and the importance of the muse in Homer's "Odyssey." It discusses the importance of the muse on storytelling in general and how the narrator of "Odyssey" invokes the muse for further storytelling support. The paper describes the impact that the muse has on any of the characters in Homer's "Odyssey."
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"Before Odysseus is introduced, the narrator invokes the Muse to ask for her assistance in retelling Odysseus' adventures. The Muse therefore has the most noticeable impact on the narrator of the story. In the first book, the narrator suggests that Odysseus' story belongs not to him but to the Muses. The Muse receives her information not as humans do through the five senses but from some mysterious source: as if from the divine database of human affairs. The narrator simply serves as a channel for the Muse's wisdom and the medium through which it is transmitted. Therefore, the Muse is what makes Odysseus' story timeless. If the narrator must invoke the Muse before telling the story, Homer suggests that the story is in fact timeless and immortal like the gods. The Muse helps humans to tell and retell stories like Homer's to learn meaningful moral lessons. She gave "both good and evil" to Demodocus too, indicating that the Muse is a neutral spiritual force."
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Homer's "The Odyssey", 2005.
A critical analysis of Homer's "The Odyssey", and the Greek epic narrative style.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 4 sources, £ 25.95
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In this literary study, Homer's "The Odyssey" is examined in relation to the unified Epic format of ancient Greece. The writer proposes, that by examining plot structures and character actions in Homer's epic tale of Odysseus, one can realize how Plato critically examines the role of drama versus didactic narrative in the epic genre. The writer further explains that, in essence, the problem of drama in Homer's epic does portend a didactic set of moral principles in which young men should live through the philosophical principles displayed in Plato's Republic. The paper analyzes how the moral lesson of chastity and loyalty, in Book 19 of Homer's "The Odyssey", is presented though the plot structure, which is based on a dramatic marital view of Grecian society.
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Homer's "Odyssey", 2005.
This paper compares the characters Penelope and Eurykleia in Homer's "Odyssey".
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 3 sources, £ 31.95
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This paper explains that the Penelope and Eurykleia in Homer's "Odyssey" are similar in a number of respects. The author points out that the significant point is that Penelope uses her reason and planning powers while Eurykleia is a person who has access to information and can act to bring out the truth. The paper stress that they are complementary.
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"From the contemporary perspective, Penelope and Eurykleia appear in many respects to be constrained and to be inferior to men. However, both of these women play crucial roles in The Odyssey. Eurykleia is a practical woman of action, a confidante, and a person who has the perception to identify the truth. Penelope, on the other hand, has the power to determine the entire outcome of the epic, depending on her decision regarding the suitors. Both women have power, and Penelope makes it clear that she could have prevented the entire journey by Odysseus, while the final outcome could not have occurred without Eurykleia's assistance to Odysseus."
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Aeschylus' "Agamemnon" and Homer's "Odyssey", 2006.
A paper comparing the homecoming stories of Aeschylus' "Agamemnon" and Homer's "Odyssey."
750 words (approx. 3.0 pages), 2 sources, MLA, £ 18.95
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This paper compares and contrasts the stories of two heroes returning from war, as expressed in Homer's Odyssey. The paper describes the differences in family life in the two stories. The paper explains that Agamemnon left for battle, sacrificing his daughter. As a result, Agamemnon's homecoming is a tragedy. His wife has been unfaithful and wants to avenge her daughter. By contrast, the paper explains, Odysseus goes through many trials and tribulations before he is able to return home. The author explains, though, that once he arrives at home, he finds a faithful wife with whom he is able to rebuild a good family life.
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"Aeschylus and Homer portray two different versions of a post-war homecoming by the central protagonists of the texts "Agamemnon" and "The Odyssey." Agamemnon and Odysseus are both Greek generals who fought successfully in the Trojan War. Both men are kings. While the dramatist Aeschylus portrays an ungrateful homecoming on the part of the central protagonist's wife, and dramatizes a dark prophesy of death that is ultimately fulfilled, as well as stresses the inevitability of fate at the hands of vengeful women, Homer shows a far different possibility for a wartime homecoming. Homer shows how unexpected happy endings can occur, despite the persistent influence of the gods in human affairs. Homer depicts a loyal wife and son waiting for the main protagonist, upon Odysseus' return from the Trojan War. These different family portraits suggest that in Aeschylus' point of view, war destroys family alliances and a true post-war homecoming that recaptures the past is impossible, given the moral as well as territorial destruction of war. But Homer suggests, even though years may be lost, there is still a family bond that can be sustained, despite years of separation."
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Homer?s Odyssey, 2002.
A discussion of Homer's Odyssey, illustrating the relationship between Telemakhos and Penelope.
1,084 words (approx. 4.3 pages), 2 sources, APA, £ 26.95
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This paper analyzes the complex set of both personal and cultural relationships between many characters in Homer?s Odyssey. The paper describes Homeric culture, which demanded that a high level of attention be paid to social norms and standards. The paper portrays the loyalty the characters must show, through an examination of the relationship between Telemakhos and his mother Penelope.
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"Telemakhos shows both admiration and loyalty toward his mother, his household and his father by publicly lamenting and confronting the intruding suitors in a public assembly, an assembly that is not called together frequently and seems to be reserved for very important events or occasions. Telemakhos makes clear to the assembly that he wishes that the suitors withdraw from his home because they are both unwanted and because proof of his father?s death, even after such a long absence, has not been determined. Telemakhos reports that his mother wishes to remain faithful to Odysseus until some sure sign of his death is brought to her, yet she is forced by custom to address so many unwanted suitors and feels unprotected so far from her own family."
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Homer's "Odyssey", 2005.
An analysis of the understanding of the proper house guest in Homer's "Odyssey".
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 0 sources, £ 18.95
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This paper discusses the text of Homer's "Odyssey". The paper suggests that a close reading of the text reveals that Homer favored guests who were well behaved and hosts who were willing to treat their guests with respect no matter their social standing. It uses this understanding of the text to demonstrate just how fickle the ancient Greek gods.
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"To say that Homer's Odyssey portrays different attitudes among gods and men would be an understatement. The suffering that Ulysses endures at the hands of several different gods--most notably Poseidon--is juxtaposed against helpfulness from other gods--including Athena and Hermes. Reading the Odyssey only serves to demonstrate just how fickle the ancient Greek gods were in the eyes of at least one traveling bard. Nowhere is this more evident than in the differing way that guests and hosts behave throughout the epic. It is also clear, given Homer's treatment of this behavior, that the author had his own preference for which kind of behaviors were more acceptable than others. A close reading of the text reveals that Homer favored guests who were well behaved and hosts who were willing to treat their guests with respect no matter their social standing."
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Homer's "The Odyssey", 2005.
This paper analyzes the topic of dining etiquette in Homer's "The Odyssey".
1,180 words (approx. 4.7 pages), 0 sources, £ 28.95
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This paper explores Homer's "The Odyssey" through a discussion of how dining etiquette relates to morality within the epic. The author points out that a large part of Greek hospitality within the society of "The Odyssey" involves the preparation of feasts and giving each guest an ample amount of food served in a ritualistic manner. The paper relates that, in parallel narratives, Odysseus and his son encounter many different ideals of what non-Greeks consider hospitality, each encounter conveying their hosts' morality.
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"The knowledge of dining and making sacrifice for the gods does nothing for the survival of the crew of Odysseus. They know dining etiquette; how to eat in a polite and courteous manner, yet eating is the bane of their existence through their own actions, temptations, and through the actions of the mythological beings they encounter. Their respect as shown through courteous dining was ultimately a gesture of appreciation towards their various hosts. Menelaus attests to this etiquette of travelers when Telemakhos comes unannounced to his home. "Could we have made it home again-and Zeus gives us no more hard roving! -If other men had never fed us, given us lodging? ...Here a maid tipped out water for their hands from a golden pitcher into a silver bowl, and set a polished table near at hand; and larder mistress with her tray of loaves and savories came, dispensing all her best, and then a carver heaped their platters high with various meats, and put down cups of gold." (IV.35-37, 56-62)"
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Homer's "Odyssey", 2002.
A discussion of the moral values of Homer's "Odyssey".
2,038 words (approx. 8.2 pages), 5 sources, APA, £ 45.95
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This paper examines the different moral values presented in the epic poem, "The Odyssey" by Homer and the ways in which these values are presented through some of the characters. It shows that while the "Odyssey" is indeed a moral epic, the moral position of the main characters themselves, namely Odysseus and the Gods, can at times be questionable. It evaluates how the "Odyssey" seems to portray the idea that obstacles and hardship arise out of moral weakness, self-control is overwhelmingly important and sufferings come about when a person gives in to temptation as well as love and the importance of family and home.
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"Another moral element present in the poem is ?dike?. Justice. In the end, evil will be punished. Good will triumph. Odysseus murders all the suitors and his disloyal servants. It has often been debated whether his actions were justified. Based on the moral value of ?dike?, the poet obviously meant the murders to be justified. Evil must be punished, and what better way than to have evil punished by good. The suitors had broken many moral laws. They courted the wife of a great hero, made themselves at home in his palace, ate his food, slept with his servants and conspired to kill his son. They had to receive their punishment, their ?nemesis?- retribution from the Gods. "
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Homer's "Odyssey", 2002.
A review of Homer's "Odyssey" with an emphasis on the theme of the journey.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, £ 25.95
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This paper will discuss the theme of the journey in the "Odyssey" by Homer. By analyzing this theme, we can see how the text reveals this in the characters and events, which occur in the ideals of this Homeric epic.
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Poseidon in Homer's "The Odyssey", 2005.
A discussion of the central role of Poseidon in Homer's "The Odyssey".
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 1 source, £ 18.95
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The paper describes how Homer creates Poseidon as a god that is filled with wrath, and seeks to humble the equally wrathful Odysseus in his journey home from Troy. The paper examines the major conflict in this story, which centers on Poseidon's wrath, and discusses the problems that Odysseus must overcome and faced in his journey back to Ithaca.
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"In this study, the Poseidon's role as the wrathful god toward Odysseus in Homer's The Odyssey presents various obstacles for this hero of the Trojan wars. By analyzing how Poseidon reacted to the blinding of his son, the Cyclops Polyphemus, one can understand the variety of problems that Odysseus must overcome. In essence, Poseidon presents various obstacles for Odysseus through his wrathful vengeance toward a lower mortal in the pantheon of the Gods. The theme of wrath, which has been one of the various meanings behind the actual Greek name "Odysseus", is the central motivation for Poseidon who makes his journey home from the Trojan wars difficult. After Odysseus has blinded Polyphemus, it is obvious that this is his general intention to destroy the Cyclops."
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Homer's "The Odyssey" - A Freudian Interpretation Of Telemachus, 1990.
Uses tenets of Freudian psychoanalysis to interpret the character and relationships of Telemachus in Homer's "The Odyssey".
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 2 sources, £ 39.95
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"Telemachus was the son of Odysseus, a son left behind when his father went away to the Trojan War. Odysseus would be gone for thirty years, and his time away from home can be divided into thirds--for the first ten years, he was fighting the Trojan War; he was lost on the way home and spent ten years on an island, despairing of ever returning home; and finally he spends ten years making his way back once he is released from this form of bondage. Telemachus grows to manhood without a father, and during that time he must face the need to protect his mother from the rapacious suitors who are after what would be Telemachus's inheritance. In the course of the poem The Odyssey by Homer, Telemachus grows up, beginning as a callow youth who wants only for his father to return to save himself and his mother to a man..."
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Homer's "Odyssey", 2002.
Customs surrounding the treatment of strangers in Homer's "Odyssey."
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, £ 25.95
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This paper explains the rituals that the Greeks practiced in treatment of strangers.
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Homer's "Odyssey", 1973.
This paper discusses the structure, motivationsand effects of the characterization of Homer's Odysseus in the "Odyssey".
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, £ 22.95
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"In Homer's "Odyssey", considerably less time and detail is spent on the events preceding Odysseus' departure from Oggyia than after it. The body of the poem concerns itself with the final events in Odysseus' return to Ithaca and the events in Ithaca contemporaneous with this return. Thus, the epic may be said to fall into two general structural divisions, the first and largest with the hero's last months voyaging, his son's preparations for his return, and Penelope's relations with the suitors. Included in this part of the structure are the last episodes of the poem in which Odysseus regains his throne and the suitors are killed. The second part of the structure involves the scenes narrated by Odysseus himself at the Phaiacian court. The two parts are differentiated by stylistic, thematic, and situational changes. "
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Penelope's Suitors in Homer's "Odyssey", 2007.
A discussion of the narrative function and importance of Penelope's suitors within Homer's "Odyssey".
1,104 words (approx. 4.4 pages), 1 source, MLA, £ 27.95
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The paper analyzes how the many suitors that unsuccessfully woo Odysseus's wife, Penelope, when Odysseus is away for 20 years fighting the Trojan war, serve, stylistically, to expand the number and variety of viewpoints in the text. The paper further analyzes how this reinforces the theme of Penelope's loyalty to her absent husband. The essay discusses how the presence of these many suitors within Odysseus' household during his absence, and their efforts to woo his wife away from him, serve several distinct narrative functions.
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"When Odysseus finally does at last arrive home to Ithaca again, disguising himself now as an elderly beggar, it becomes abundantly clear to Odysseus that Penelope has indeed remained faithful to him throughout his twenty-year absence, and especially during the difficult period of the last four years since Troy has fallen. In order to have managed to do so, however, Penelope has had to think up clever tricks and time-buying strategies, including the telling of her suitors that she was weaving a burial shroud for Laertes, the old father of Odysseus, and that as soon as she finishes with this work she would then finally choose from among her many impatiently waiting suitors."
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